Posted on 03/07/2016 6:31:02 AM PST by Whenifhow
[...] we've had some people say: "I want to switch to the Trump party"...
Youngstown Ohio - About 1,000 Democrats in Mahoning County so far have switched their party affiliation to Republican with election officials saying several did it to vote for Donald Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner.
"We are seeing something this election cycle I've never seen before to this degree," said board Chairman Mark Munroe, who's also the county Republican chairman. "Every day I take phone calls or get voice messages from people saying they've been Democrats all their life and they've had it. They want to vote for Donald Trump. I'm surprised at the volume of inquiries we're getting. It's remarkable."
A number of Democrats taking a Republican ballot when voting early at the board "say they want to vote for Trump," said Joyce Kale-Pesta, Mahoning County Board of Elections director.
About 7,000 Mahoning County voters have cast early votes. Early voting started Feb. 17 and ends March 14, the day before the primary. Of those 7,000, about 14 percent were Democrats who voted Republican, Kale-Pesta said. That's about 1,000 so far.
[...] In Ohio, party affiliation is basely solely on voting in a primary, Munroe said."All you have to do is tell a poll worker that you want to vote for a certain party in the primary and that becomes your affiliation," he said.
Election officials in Trumbull and Columbiana counties say they aren't keeping track of how many voters are changing party affiliations."But we've had some people say, 'I want to switch to the Trump party," said Stephanie Penrose, Trumbull County's elections board director.
"There are a lot of Democrats switching over," said Kim Meeks, Columbiana County's elections board deputy director. "We see a trend, but we won't know details until after the primary." (read more)
Of course they can vote for Mrs. Bill on Nov. 8 no matter what they have done prior to that time.
Mrs. Bill may not be fully beloved, but Mr. Bill is for some bizarre reason!
How does Kasich expect to advance after his assumed OH victory?
These are the voters the “true conservatives” are so scornful of Trump for attracting
I'm not surprised at all.
these are the people who build shining cities on hills and whose main concerns are the economic security for their lives and the future for their children and how to pay their health insurance premiums and doctor bills.. if they can get health insurance they can afford...which is now like taking on another mortgage
or now, whether hundreds or thousands of non assimilating illegals and muslims are resettled in their towns and take over their schools and communities
Not abortion, USSC justices, or whether Iran gets nuclear weapons
Sorry CPAC
So, in Ohio, if they vote R in the primary, can they go back and vote D in the general?
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In Ohio you could do that. You can walk in and say you want a Dem or repub ballot the same day. You have to be registered before that however.
https://tomwfox.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/ohio-is-a-semi-open-primary/
1. A registered Ohio voter goes to the appropriate primary election voting place, with the required personal identification.
2. A poll worker will ask if you want a Republican or a Democrat ballot.
3. The poll worker checks which party primary you voted in last time, and if it is not the same party as you are asking to vote in this time, you may be challenged. If you are not challenged, then there should be no problem.
4. If you wish to switch party affiliations, say so.
More at the link.
If anything it is because the 90s economically was pretty good here, so he gets the credit.
http://chrislittleton.com/opposekasich/
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Thanks for that link. Not everyone is supporting Kasich. Ohio is better off than with Strickland, the previous Dem governor. But Kasich has his own problems.
Gov. John Kasich – Ohio’s Own Obama?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3111567/posts
Quote:
Ohio’s legislature – lobbied by grassroots groups the press acknowledges only to sneer at – stripped Medicaid expansion from the state budget and even passed language explicitly forbidding it. Kasich responded by line-item vetoing the Medicaid expansion ban, and then unilaterally expanding Medicaid when several more months of emotional blackmail didn’t work.
The legislature wouldn’t grow government the way Kasich wanted, so Kasich took a page from Obama’s playbook and pretended the huge policy decision was an executive matter.
these are the people who build shining cities on hills and whose main concerns are the economic security for their lives and the future for their children and how to pay their health insurance premiums and doctor bills.. if they can get health insurance they can afford...which is now like taking on another mortgage
or now, whether hundreds or thousands of non assimilating illegals and muslims are resettled in their towns and take over their schools and communities
Not abortion, USSC justices, or whether Iran gets nuclear weapons
Sorry CPAC
How does Kasich expect to advance after his assumed OH victory?
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He has not articulated a plan. He may be in on the attempt to keep Trump from the nomination.
Kasich was re-election in 2014, so has a couple more years before his term is up.
Let the GOPe have a brokered convention and see the results!
Shhh...don't let the donor class shills hear you say that!
You mean they aren’t flocking to John “Hong Kong Phooey” Kasich?
Trump is actually an excellent candidate for the moderate democrats. He’s no liberal. He is a corporatist, but one that will likely help business in a way that will help unions.
He’s the democrat republicans would vote for, if they voted in a democratic primary.
It’s funny that in a year where we actually had a great chance to run a real conservative against some really bad democrat candidates, and actually put a conservative in the white house, we are going to end up with the most left-leaning presidential contest in my lifetime, a socialist running against a democrat.
And when it is done, it will be a generation, if ever, before we can undo the damage just the supreme court nominations cause. I have no doubt Trump will be better at nominating justices than Hillary. But he’s not going to give us a pro-life justice, or a justice that will stop the federal government, because he believes in the federal government and really isn’t in the fight for the pro-life cause enough to put his “reputation” on the line for it.
Look at the people he says are good judges.
Trump hasn’t been nominated yet or elected. One point that he and Cruz both agree on is that if the Romney GOPe group takes over the convention or blows up the party, Hillary will be elected and the justices that are appointed will not be to our liking. Haven’t heard a GOPe response to that yet, but they are right.
It’s note voters who determine the outcome of an election, it’s the people who count he votes.”
~ Joseph Stalin ~
he = the
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