Guten Abend, Herr Blucher!
I saw a poll somewhere that said 99% of Republicans are voting for Romney and only 90-95% of Democrats are voting for Obama.
This situation (for the Democrats, anyway) only gets magnified in Ohio. What with Obama’s war on coal and the Catholics up in arms about the healthcare mandate? Same thing in PA.
A lot of coal miners are registered Democrats, as are many Catholics. Few of them will bother to change their registration before they vote. They’ll be Democrats voting for Romney — like Reagan democrats in ‘80 and ‘84.
Make sense?
In Ohio the only way you can change your registration is by requesting the other party's ballot in the primary. If you skip the primary you can't change your registration.