But polling evidence from Scotland is that about a third of voters may split their votes between different parties.
Let's say you're in a political science course and the professor mentions how Latinos split their votes between the parties.
Since 1972, in a state where people routinely split their votes, the governorship has gone every time with the party that also won the presidency.
Hispanics, unlike African-Americans, have split their votes in the recent past.
Besides, Latinos are never going to get ahead politically in this country until they learn to split their votes between the parties to influence Republicans and Democrats.
Manfred and union head Michael Weiner are part of the arbitration panel, and management and the union almost always split their votes, leaving Das, the independent panel member, to make the decision.
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It will require bringing together voters who not only split their votes among Democrats, Republicans and independents, but also are from 30 distinct ethnic groups separated by language, culture and, for some, historical enmity of their ancestral nations.
Although Maine and Nebraska never actually split their electoral votes until Nebraska in 2008, one could readily imagine how this kind of split electoral vote could make a big difference in contested battleground states.
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Last year, both split their electoral votes between Obama and Romney.
But their votes may well be split between the other candidates and many of them are now reluctant to support Michael Portillo, who they once saw as their natural champion.
He calculates that if the Tories and Labour got the same number of votes and the Liberal Democrats split their second preferences equally, the Tories would end up with 60 fewer seats than Labour.
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