Posted on 03/07/2016 6:31:02 AM PST by Whenifhow
[...] we've had some people say: "I want to switch to the Trump party"...
Youngstown Ohio - About 1,000 Democrats in Mahoning County so far have switched their party affiliation to Republican with election officials saying several did it to vote for Donald Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner.
"We are seeing something this election cycle I've never seen before to this degree," said board Chairman Mark Munroe, who's also the county Republican chairman. "Every day I take phone calls or get voice messages from people saying they've been Democrats all their life and they've had it. They want to vote for Donald Trump. I'm surprised at the volume of inquiries we're getting. It's remarkable."
A number of Democrats taking a Republican ballot when voting early at the board "say they want to vote for Trump," said Joyce Kale-Pesta, Mahoning County Board of Elections director.
About 7,000 Mahoning County voters have cast early votes. Early voting started Feb. 17 and ends March 14, the day before the primary. Of those 7,000, about 14 percent were Democrats who voted Republican, Kale-Pesta said. That's about 1,000 so far.
[...] In Ohio, party affiliation is basely solely on voting in a primary, Munroe said."All you have to do is tell a poll worker that you want to vote for a certain party in the primary and that becomes your affiliation," he said.
Election officials in Trumbull and Columbiana counties say they aren't keeping track of how many voters are changing party affiliations."But we've had some people say, 'I want to switch to the Trump party," said Stephanie Penrose, Trumbull County's elections board director.
"There are a lot of Democrats switching over," said Kim Meeks, Columbiana County's elections board deputy director. "We see a trend, but we won't know details until after the primary." (read more)
Ohio Ping
Early voting started on Feb 17 in Ohio. The primary is March 15, winner take all.
Either impressive, or a harbinger of doom for the GOP.
All depends on your perspective.
‘I want to switch to the Trump party,”
Can we change the name to that!??
Grand Ole Trump Party.
Sounds like Reagan democrats giving us another shot. They left after bush 1 raised taxes after promising not to. This is great to see Reagan being important in this election again.
I haven’t seen any recent Ohio Polls. Are there any?
Go you Buckeye fans!!! Love from Michigan. Kasich is a Soros puppet with dangerous foreign policy.
Ohio is in the rust belt, so the trade issues are a factor.
And the EPA rules for coal and energy will affect Ohio.
SCOTUS has upheld the EPA rules
Chief justice rejects plea to block air pollution rule—(Big Victory for Obama EPA)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3405119/posts
I’m an Ohioan, and I can walk in and pick up a democrat ballot if I want to.
I’ve also heard no encouragement for democrats to cross over and pick the easier candidate for them to run against.
The issue in Ohio is that Kasich truly does control this state. It’s his republican secretary of state who runs the campaigns, his attorney general who decides the law, his supreme court, his house, and his senate.
All are republican, and all are obligated in some fashion to him.
When he said, “I WILL win Ohio.” a chill was in the air.
There are more ways than one to win an election.
When I was working in my industry, I had the privilege to with a number of Ohio manufacturing companies around the state. There is a stellar workforce in each of them, both union and non-union. The made in the U.S.A. pride is there as it should be. I am not surprised that the message is resonating with them.
“Chief Justice Rejects plea to block EPA Rule”. That is the same Chief Justice that was Championed by Ted Cruz.
Reagan democrats. Good for them
I’m getting that vibe in Michigan too.
Hillary isn’t some beloved figure, and Bernie is very appealing to the leftists where I live, so that may be tighter than it seems.
Trump will do extremely well in almost all of the state because of blue collar cross-overs. The UP is pseudo Minnesota, so they will be too busy voting Bernie. The rest are secular and right-leaning.
Honestly the only person with any presence, and I use that loosely, is Kasich.
It’s pretty quiet here for the most part. Trump pretty much has dominated the scene.
It's only a surprise if your life centers around drinking Johnnie Walker at the country club bar. (That was the drink of choice when I was working my way through college)
Indeed
Also the same one who sold the country out on Obamacare
I haven’t seen any recent Ohio Polls. Are there any?
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Here’s one poll but the latest is from late Feb. We are just starting to see ads on tv and robo calls.
Reagan would approve, these people want the shining city on a hill again.
It's just a clever Ted Cruz style poison pill to make the democrats look bad.
GOPe: “That’s not the big tent we wanted!”
So, in Ohio, if they vote R in the primary, can they go back and vote D in the general?
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