Has anyone changed parties when leading up to a election?
Like there views on the environment or health care environment etc
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LeopoldBloom · M
People vote for candidates of the other party all the time. There are also cross-ticket voters who vote different parties for different offices.
If you’re asking about people changing their party registration, that usually happens before a primary where there’s a campaign to ratfuck a candidate. For example, in 2008 Rush Limbaugh urged his listeners to switch from Republican to Democrat so they could vote in the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton, to drag out the process and make it harder for Obama to claim he had a party mandate. Since McCain had the Republican nomination sewn up, there was no need for them to vote for him.
This is illegal in some states, but hard to prosecute because the voter can just say they changed their mind. It’s not necessary to register with a party to vote in the general election.
If you’re asking about people changing their party registration, that usually happens before a primary where there’s a campaign to ratfuck a candidate. For example, in 2008 Rush Limbaugh urged his listeners to switch from Republican to Democrat so they could vote in the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton, to drag out the process and make it harder for Obama to claim he had a party mandate. Since McCain had the Republican nomination sewn up, there was no need for them to vote for him.
This is illegal in some states, but hard to prosecute because the voter can just say they changed their mind. It’s not necessary to register with a party to vote in the general election.