If you live in a Democratic-dominated open primary state, like Massachusetts, you just might be an independent or "unenrolled." It allows you to vote in either primary.
Once upon a time when there were still conservative Democrats running in Massachusetts and Republicans couldn't win anyway, it wasn't a bad deal.
Anyway, my family were "unenrolled" or independent during the Reagan years. We voted for Reagan anyway.
Don't post about me and not ping me. Romney has been deeply involved in politics all of his life. His first job in politics was as a teen intern.
Romney was the fourth republican governor in a row in a state that prefers GOP governors, in fact he gave up his supporting of democrats, democrat fundraising, and voting, to reregister republican in October of 1993, for the reason of running for office in Massachusetts.
Actually, Romney has been a political animal all of his life, starting as a republican intern in his early teens, attending the 1964 convention, being an activist in college, participating in campaigns including Governor and Presidential and Senate, for his parents, and political interviews all of his life (including the 1960s, and 1970s), leaving the republican party because of Reagan in 1979, donating to widely scattered campaigns during the 1980s and 1990s, becoming a supporter of democrats and a democrat fund raiser and voter, and running for office for the last 20 years while spending about 55 million of his own funds and breaking spending records in multiple campaigns.
Even Ann has run for political office. Mitt Romney was weaned on politics and has been involved with them all of his life.