People do care.
They have been energized by the candidates. If they were allowed by law, you could almost imagine them voting early and often, as is said in the old joke about Chicago politics. In this week's Michigan vote, independents and Democrats swelled the ranks of those trooping to the polls to 1.3 million, twice as many as voted in the GOP primary in the previous presidential election year. To be sure, not all Republicans are happy about the Democratic participation. Some are now saying the contest should have been more strictly a Republican affair.