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Report: 46,000 Pa. Democrats Become Republicans Due To Trump
CBS ^ | 3/10/2016 | Staff

Posted on 03/10/2016 12:37:43 PM PST by GilGil

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Nearly 46,000 Pennsylvania Democrats have switched to Republicans since the beginning of the year.

According to Penn Live, some experts attribute the mass exodus to Donald Trump.

There’s even a title for the movement. It’s called “Ditch and Switch” and calls for lifelong Democrats to abandon the party, register Republican, and help ensure Trump’s place in the general election.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburgh.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; demsfortrump; election; election2016; newyork; pennsylvania; trump
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Trump won't have to be worried about democrats voting against by November. There won't be any left.
1 posted on 03/10/2016 12:37:43 PM PST by GilGil
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To: GilGil

I’ll believe this all when I see it. Cheating is going to be widespread


2 posted on 03/10/2016 12:38:27 PM PST by ghosthost
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To: GilGil

I’m hearing it’s to vote for Cruz and oppose Trump.....


3 posted on 03/10/2016 12:38:35 PM PST by caww
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To: GilGil

Never know. Could be because of Cruz. LOL.


4 posted on 03/10/2016 12:38:40 PM PST by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: caww

Well that was a great laugh

Nice to see some humor in these threads once in a while


5 posted on 03/10/2016 12:39:43 PM PST by arl295
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To: GilGil

Cruzbots going to say Trump is a Democrat anyway.


6 posted on 03/10/2016 12:40:07 PM PST by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: GilGil

Low info knuckle draggers. If they like Trump, wait until they get a gander at Cruz. It’s like upper class sophistication on the hoof. Peasant under glass.


7 posted on 03/10/2016 12:41:15 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: lodi90

Absolutely. Cruz is going to need all the democrat crossovers. After calling Trump voters stupid and low information it is going to be tough to get them to vote for him. Typical politician who hates voters. They don’t call him lyin’ Ted for nothing.


8 posted on 03/10/2016 12:43:06 PM PST by GilGil
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To: ChuteTheMall

I’d gladly vote for a JFK Democrat before a Mitt Romney Republican


9 posted on 03/10/2016 12:44:22 PM PST by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: GilGil

How many Republicans will refuse to vote for Trump in PA? 200-300,000?


10 posted on 03/10/2016 12:46:29 PM PST by mcjordansc
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To: GilGil

Or they think Hillary will have an easier time beating Trump.


11 posted on 03/10/2016 12:46:37 PM PST by tje
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I'm not stating this as a fact, but could it be that the Democrats and media really WANT Trump as the nominee because they have an "October Surprise" planned?
12 posted on 03/10/2016 12:47:06 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: GilGil

Switched for the primary. They’ll be back home to the Democrat Party for the general election.


13 posted on 03/10/2016 12:47:23 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: GilGil

If they vote republican in the primary are they denied voting democrat in the general?


14 posted on 03/10/2016 12:49:51 PM PST by Rusty0604 (oh the stories I could tell. but I really don't think scalia's death is suspiciou.)
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To: arl295

No kidding

Sure that’s why Trump is turning out record event attendance and voters

It’s for Cruz really

We’re just too uninformed and disengaged

..,,that’s what hear

This blatant subterfuge in the face of the Trump juggernaut

It’s pointless and aggravating


15 posted on 03/10/2016 12:50:32 PM PST by wardaddy (some Cruz people must kick puppies.....)
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

There are no JFK democrats left.


16 posted on 03/10/2016 12:51:32 PM PST by Rusty0604 (oh the stories I could tell. but I really don't think scalia's death is suspiciou.)
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To: GilGil

46,000 Pennsylvania Democrats woke up on a bad hair day and thought “Trump is our man”.


17 posted on 03/10/2016 12:52:26 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: wagglebee

Could be. But it also could be that some blue collar democrats are pretty fed up with losing manufacturing, coal mining, and other industrial companies and jobs, etc. Obama and the democrat’s idiotic war on coal, gas & oil has put a lot of people out of business and permanently out of work.


18 posted on 03/10/2016 12:52:31 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: GilGil

I’ve LONG thought that the GOP should have gone harder after the working class/middle class, esp Caucasians. I know the reversals of the NE and South politically, but they blew a golden opp when not going after the Dems on issues of jobs and race, esp “affirmative action”

Whoever has advised these idiots to keep talking about “bringing more minorities” into the fold totally missed the boat. People of all races give more of a damn about family, safety, national security, crime, education, jobs/economy, fairness, drugs, et al than they do about “waterboarding” and some of the other totally ridiculous Q&A and “issues” and infighting these out of touchers get into.


19 posted on 03/10/2016 12:55:49 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Racial pandering really worked well for Jebbie)
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To: Rusty0604

That’s how it works in most states.


20 posted on 03/10/2016 12:56:53 PM PST by CottonBall
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