Posted on 02/29/2016 5:32:10 PM PST by VitacoreVision
Nearly 20,000 Bay State Democrats have fled the party this winter, with thousands doing so to join the Republican ranks, according to the state's top elections official.
Secretary of State William Galvin said more than 16,300 Democrats have shed their party affiliation and become independent voters since Jan. 1, while nearly 3,500 more shifted to the MassGOP ahead of tomorrow's "Super Tuesday" presidential primary.
Galvin called both "significant" changes that dwarf similar shifts ahead of other primary votes, including in 2000, when some Democrats flocked from the party in order to cast a vote for Sen. John McCain in the GOP primary.
The primary reason? Galvin said his "guess" is simple: "The Trump phenomenon," a reference to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who polls show enjoying a massive lead over rivals Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and others among Massachusetts Republican voters.
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Trump is well ahead in MA. He should romp to a win in the Bay State tomorrow.
Dang, if he can flip MA, NY will be a piece of cake.
It’ll be an early night in November.
The ted cruz wave is just getting started
It is not unusual for members of one party to re-register as unenrolled to vote in the other party’s primary in Massachusetts. Unenrolled voters can choose which primary ballot they want. I used to have a dyed-blue-Democrat landlord in Massachusetts who would regularly change his registration to unenrolled to help the Republicans elect the least viable candidate.
Either that or, Operation Chaos 2016, or democrats want Trump to run against.
I suspect a significant portion of these democrats are leaving and registering as independants or republicans as spoilers.
Impressive. America is waking.
And like that, suddenly 20,000 Democrats become racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobes.
Following in the footsteps of the previous Bay State Republican “legends”, Brown and Romney ...
*ping*
Racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobes have more fun.
He was catching fire and surging and playing twister.
MSNBC and Fox News have been taking punk shots at Trump for days now. The Liberal establishment is scared of him too.
Trump is hugely popular with everyone ... except for the Mass Media and the R/D Party Establishment.
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Either that or, Operation Chaos 2016, or democrats want Trump to run against.
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have you talked to people on the street?
I don’t think these folks are spoilers, I think they identify with Trump’s plain talk
Trump is the candidate of the “anti PC” movement and it is yuuuuge. People are fed up with the nonsense. The emperor (establishment) has no clothes
Wayt! Wut? He’s going to drop out any minute....
>>>Trump is hugely popular with everyone ... except for the Mass Media and the R/D Party Establishment.
Well them and a whole lot of conservatives and most of the voting population of the U.S. :)
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-is-really-unpopular-with-general-election-voters/
yeah let’s not talk that way. I remember all the talk about a landslide in 2012. Let’s just stay focused this time and no pat on the back until after the election
Maybe they are doing this to give us Trump and then they will still vote for Hillary?
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