Posted on 03/16/2016 1:50:25 PM PDT by RC one
MSNBC reporters across Ohio report on an exceptionally high rate of Democratic voters crossing over to the Republican Party.
Kasich is only in this race because the Dems crossed over and voted for him in order to ensure a contested and disatrous convention. John is, of course, in complete denial.
GOP Establishment = Liberal Democrats.
Yep. It should not be allowed and states that allow it are mentally challenged.
Lots of states don’t even have party registration. You cannot stop it in those states.
Dems offer a criminal or a socialist.
I’m more surprised a those who didn’t cross over. I’m guessing they all have to share a single working brain cell to get through life. And most smoke week so even that cell isn’t in good shape most of the time.
I do not understand the case for cross over primaries. Why would Republicans want Democrats to help determine their nominee (and vice versa)? It kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a party. Of course, the Republican Party kind of defeats the purpose of having a party.
The Uniparty has got to go.
I don’t know what to make of OH. The entire eastern 20% of the state went Trump. This is the fracking area. However, I thought Trump would do much better in Cuyahoga County and in areas like Toledo. Color me surprised. Even so, despite losing by nine to the Mailman, Trump still beat Cankles by 35,000 votes.
Something like this happened in Duval county in NE FL. Local news outlets were reporting that around 7000 Dems had reregistered to vote R in yesterday’s primary. Trump won handily of course and I haven’t heard any follow up from local news outlets today. My first thought too, was that the Dems were crossing over to vote for Marco or Kasich.
“Why would Republicans want Democrats to help determine their nominee (and vice versa)?”
Republicans want it because it helps them elect moderates both at the presidential level and statewide level.
You would think Kasich already won the primaries? People are getting carried away now. Kasich won one primary.
The race is now between Trump and Cruz. Trump will have the most delegates. Why doesn’t the head of the Republican Party bring some order to the party? If he doesn’t, more people will not be satisfied and more people will vote against the establishment in the future. The Republicans will lose the Senate and lose seats in Congress.
I disagree.. I think they are spinning that, But i think this is genuine crossover for trump. I want to see the mo. numbers too. Hate does not drive people to the polls, passion does. People want to be with a winner, not with someone that is a loser.
I tend to agree. Kasick thinks it is because he is loved by Demon Rats.
Deluded.
There were 1,203,403 republican votes cast in the 2012 republican Primary. There were 2,043,043 votes cast in the 2016 republican primary. I find it pretty hard to believe that Ohio has created 839,640 new Republicans in the past 4 years. This was a chaos vote.
There were 1,203,403 republican votes cast in the 2012 republican Primary. There were 2,043,043 votes cast in the 2016 republican primary. I find it pretty hard to believe that Ohio has created 839,640 new Republicans in the past 4 years. This was a chaos vote.
I want to see the RNC donor stats... I havent seen anyone post that they have sent money into the RNC here in months.I would bet they are sinking financially.
Joy. So the Democrats get their candidate either way.
I hope folks do realize that without the crossover voters, many states would not be seeing the surge that Trump has.
In this particular state, the votes “might” have went to Kasich, no one knows, but they might also have went towards Trump.
I know in my state (Illinois) many many dems came out to vote for Trump, not because of any operation chaos (the race was too tight for Hillary and Bernie, true dems were busy voting for their guy), but because we actually like him.
This has been apparent in many states.
If this was not occuring, Trump would have no power on the national stage. If he could not bring in crossover votes, and prove he was bringing them over via primaries, he would have no bargaining power.
The only place that Cruz does well is in closed primaries and caucus states. He would never get crossover voters in a general election. Trump will, and to win, the GOP needs those votes to overcome the 40% base of those on the government teet (in one way or another). The GOP is already quite handicapped at the start without even taking into account the brainwashed minority vote.
We could have closed the deal last night and then started crossing over in their primaries to vote for Bernie. But not now and probably not at any point- thanks to John Kasich.
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