Reply #7: a friend has done it [View All]

One of the most active members of our peace group has changed from being a dem to a repub for a few reasons:

1) He wanted to be sure we could claim to be a bipartisan group; and,

2) He is planning to challenge our repug representative in the primary. He doesn't have a prayer of beating her, of course, but he's hoping he can get into at least one debate with her. And that is looking more and more likely since the repug party is so fed up with her that they are looking for other candidates to challenge her.

In Wyoming, we have many Dem-repubs. Since the state is so heavily repug, a lot of people register as repugs simply to be able to vote in the only primary that usually matters. We also have same day registration (since we didn't want to do motor-voter) and so I know people who walk in to the primaries & switch to repub to vote in the primaries and then, before they leave the precinct, they switch back.