Held my nose

[urbanhermit]

I changed my voter registration to unaffiliated to vote in the Republican primary. I can't believe I voted for the Republican candidates. Hopefully it will help to keep the openly fascist Republicans off the November ballot.

[LizBeth]

1. I do not like it when Republicans do it, ergo I do not agree Dems should.

[CrispyQ]

3. Generally I don't like it either, but they have thrown the rulebook in the trash

& we are only a few elections away from one-party rule.

Please read my response below yours, in regards to some of the dirty tricks they play.

[Doc Sportello]

4. I just read the HuffPo piece about the extremist takeover in Idaho

You did the right thing.

[urbanhermit]

8. It's bad

This was a coordinated plan to make sure we have sane Republicans on the November ballot. Today is the real election in this state, too many will just vote for the R in November without a second thought. I look forward to voting against everyone I voted for today, but having Brad Little as govenor is better than a Janice McGeachin or Ammon Bundy.

[Doc Sportello]

10. Sorry I meant to reply to you

Your strategy is the only way to go in my opinion. These are scary times.

[CrispyQ]

2. Sometimes you gotta take one for the team.

I knew an election judge who was a repub but registered as a dem so she could fill one of the dem judge positions. I suspect there is going to be a whole lot of that going on this fall & I'm not sure our side is paying attention.

[rurallib]

5. I used to change my party affiliation for primaries to vote against

Iowa's governor for life Terry Branstad. He almost lost one time to Gopher from "Love Boat."

Sometimes you got to look at the big picture.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. I did that in 2012

here in VA and voted for Ron Paul just to muck up the RepubliQan presidential primary. I don't even remember who was running then, funny enough, but I hated all of them. Including him.

[LakeArenal]

7. Good move.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. I used to live in Kansas, where Democrats

often register as Republicans to vote in the Republican primaries. The problem with that is one, about half of those said they'd be voting for the most reasonable Republican choice, and the other half said they'd vote for the most extreme in the hopes that would then move people to vote for the Democrat in the general election. The two groups essentially cancelled each other out. The other problem was that the vast outnumbering of registered Republicans to registered Democrats in the state meant that all too often there seemed to be no point in Democrats running for local or even state wide offices.

Let each party decide who it wants to nominate. Just work very hard for Democrats, and maybe even run for office yourself.

[yonder]

11. I'll be doing the same here later today, urbanhermit.

Cross posted from another thread in this group:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10481522