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Ragrum

(90 posts) Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:53 AM Feb 2017

Register as a Repulican and primary the incumbents [View all]

I’ve been thinking...shouldn't progressives register as republicans so we can primary the GOP incumbents and the vote as progressives in the general.

We could take over the GOP.

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What would be the downside? kentuck Feb 2017 #1

I am just thinking if 60million dem voters crossed over and some of the 100million that did not vote Ragrum Feb 2017 #7

I am a Democrat. I register as one, vote as one, and try my best to live my life as one. Tanuki Feb 2017 #2

I have two brothers in law that have been doing this for decades csziggy Feb 2017 #3

At least it might be a way to fire entrenched GOP'rs Ragrum Feb 2017 #8

Especially since Republicans got everything gerrymandered? Stellar Feb 2017 #4

Waste of time. Instead work on GOTV in your own locality. MineralMan Feb 2017 #5

We have open primaries in Alabama. yallerdawg Feb 2017 #6