I stumbled upon this lovely piece in the NYT today: How McCain Lost in PA. In it columnist Frank Rich points out that despite having no reason to vote, 220,000 registered Republicans went to the polls, in the closed primary, to vote against John McCain and for Ron Paul. This is alarming for the GOP because, as Rich explains:

Given that the Democratic ticket beat Bush-Cheney in Pennsylvania by 205,000 votes in 2000 and 144,000 votes in 2004, these are 220,000 voters the G.O.P. can ill-afford to lose. Especially since there are now a million more registered Democrats than Republicans in Pennsylvania. (These figures don’t even include independents, who couldn’t vote in either primary on Tuesday and have been migrating toward the Democrats since 2006.)

I am going to go even further that and say this is a bigger issue in light of the other Ron Paul Story in the news, i.e. Nevada GOP convention shut down by Paul Supporters. Basically the GOP has their Ralph Nader, and just like Ralph supporters, Paul supporters don’t care who they hurt (and why should they?).