>> We considered voting in the dim primary, but they stamp your voters card, and my husband found out that you are then considered a dim for at least one year. And if you ever want to run for any public office, that is on your record.
You bring up an interesting point.
For those interested, here is the official scoop, straight from the Texas Secretary of State website:
http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/primary.shtml
You won’t be a “democrat” for a whole year, only until the end of THIS year. That means that you wouldn’t be able to vote in the McCain Huckabee runoff! (as if.)
My understanding is that you are correct on one point: the fact that you at one time voted in a dem primary might always be laying around in some public record somewhere, ready to haunt you if/when you run for public office. On the other hand, if you guess right and help terminate Hillary, you could always explain that was the REASON you voted Dem. It’ll be a legend by then, and whenever you mention that YOU helped, Republican voters will buy you a beer.
Personally, I’m not too worried about this issue. As far as the stamp on the voter card, heck, I’m going to frame it and hang it on my wall: “Voted in the 2008 Dem primary to help eliminate evil and ensure a brighter future ‘for the children’”.
“My understanding is that you are correct on one point: the fact that you at one time voted in a dem primary might always be laying around in some public record somewhere, ready to haunt you if/when you run for public office. On the other hand, if you guess right and help terminate Hillary, you could always explain that was the REASON you voted Dem. It’ll be a legend by then, and whenever you mention that YOU helped, Republican voters will buy you a beer.”
If you vote for the Dem who ends up in the White House, or even ends up loser to the one who does, the Republicans will spit in the beer.