Why did 11% of self-described liberals vote Republican at the top of the ticket?

[Chan790]

16. Oddities of nature.

You're thinking rationally, some people think only emotionally.

My mother New England-born and life-long still identifies as a liberal Republican even this far after the death of the Republican left, the sort of person who wonders where all the good Republicans like Lowell Weicker and the Chaffees went. A little sad inside that Olympia Snowe retired because the GOP looks a little less like her than it did a month ago. Still pro-labor and pro-capitalist. Still refusing to admit that Ronald "Asshole" Reagan was anything but an aberration. Admitting the last GOP nominee she liked before Romney was Richard Nixon...but she voted for Obama anyways because Romney showed a lack of character by refusing to admit he's still pro-choice. She liked him better when he was governor of MA and pro-choice. Lots of people from where I grew up have the exact same politics, half of them voted for Romney...all of them if asked would self-id as "liberal".