The relatively high 35% turnout and utter humiliation of the loony contingent suggests a significant number of people did indeed engage with the issues.
South of the border, it is acquiring precisely the caricatured significance of the "loony left" in the 80s: a supposedly militant force that Miliband cannot control and would (the argument continues) control him if he depended on its votes to govern.
But just for a moment, I'm in a room with a loony.
I fish out the email Baumeister sent me, in which he accuses Mischel of "sloppiness", "ignorance" and "indulging his prejudices", before calling his dismissal of glucose as a factor "a loony assertion".
Being expensive to acquire and maintain, international patents tend to exclude the loony fringe.
He read Shelley in the lead-up to the 1981 leadership election, which he almost won on a loony programme of import controls and withdrawal from NATO.Just as Mr Benn's political career peaked when Labour was at its most romantic and chaotic, it declined as the party lurched towards cold-headed pragmatism in the 1980s and 1990s.
THE immigration debate has seemed a bit loony lately, particularly since the usually tempered Lindsey Graham proposed revising the 14th amendment, which grants citizenship to those born in America.
What humanity could achieve if it weren't galloping in front of computer screensTHE loony music video "Gangnam Style" surpassed two billion views on YouTube this week, making it the most watched clip of all time.
That came in the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher's Tory government applied a fiscal arm-lock to restrain loony left councils, capping the taxes they were allowed to charge.
Under a Democratic president, American businesses expect a more pro-union line, but the agency's recent militancy is shocking, reminiscent of "loony-left" posturing in Britain in the 1970s.
The gunman was assumed to be a loony, but Mr Wallace believed that an opponent, perhaps Nixon, who feared his influence among poor whites, had plotted to kill him.
