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SheilaT

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15. They may not have party registration for voters,

Reply to joshcryer (Reply #12)

Fri May 8, 2015, 09:16 AM

May 2015

but most offices are partisan, including the governor's race. There are other states that don't require voters to register a party affiliation, either. But that's very different from an elected official not having a party affiliation.

Howard Dean has been a Democrat for all or most of his adult life.

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