More than 1 million voters switch registration to GOP as suburbs break from Biden

[Celticguy]

For those who don’t like Fox News here’s a PBS article about it. Sounds like a few of these voters were Democrats registering as Republicans to vote in the primary but most were people actually switching parties. From a Republican perspective it’s definitely good news. Of course these same folks could switch again in the future so doesn’t mean it’s permanent.


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/pol...-for-democrats

what is the actual effect of changing registration apart from deciding which primary you vote in ?

[cawacko]

what is the actual effect of changing registration apart from deciding which primary you vote in ?

To my knowledge, nothing. I guess the theory is one is more likely to vote for the party they are registered for but in reality people can vote for whomever they want (in the general) and how they are registered is irrelevant

[Celticguy]

To my knowledge, nothing. I guess the theory is one is more likely to vote for the party they are registered for but in reality people can vote for whomever they want (in the general) and how they are registered is irrelevant

we dont have registration in VA but on primary day you can only get one ballot. the D or the R.
we started jamming the primary voting here decades ago to do our little part in nominating the worst candidate. seldom works but its worth a shot.