This describes the majority of voters which do not have a clue as to what they are voting for, or the platform that their favorite candidate stand on. The just blindly vote the party ticket because that's their team. Generally, it is the swing voters that are more informed on politics and don't necessarily vote the party ticket.

I heard this argument a lot, and perhaps the people I find myself around are abnormal, but I'm trying and failing to come up with people I know who vote along party lines simply because it's one party or the other. Just about everyone has at least one major issue that keeps them from voting the other way, and most have multiple reasons.

I guess I have seen something like it, now that I'm thinking about it -- but it's generally a negative condition, i.e. "I'm not voting for X simply because they are part of party Y." They're not necessarily voting for their party because it's their party, but they're doing it because it's not another party, or more specifically, not a particular candidate.

One of my favorite things about the shitstorm that has been the last 4 years is the red and blue teams ripping eachother to pieces when Kaepernick kneeled, and then the NFL responded. Other sports drama has been fun as well. I suspect some people with a lot of power benefit a great deal by a binary division of the population, but sports throws a nice fat wrench into their Best Laid Plans.

It's crazy.

I can't imagine a "sports school" in Canada.