So I was researching a piece on Ken Kesey a few years back, and discovered that he and McMurtry were in classes together at Stanford--Wallace Stegner's classes, I think.

             And there was some written communication between McMurtry and somebody in Oregon about the legacy of Neal Cassidy.

             McMurtry made the comment that Neal Cassidy was--paraphrasing--"an uneducated dozer driver, and he didn't want to get involved in something like that."

             Not realizing that you don't "drive" a dozer, I suspect McMurtry would make an ideal Obama voter.