Cleveland Plain Dealer: GOP voters crossing over in large numbers

[RamboLiberal]

Poll watchers throughout Ohio are noting large numbers of Republican voters crossing over to vote in the Democratic Primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

In the Republican roost of Chagrin Falls, veteran poll worker Liz McFadden was amazed at the number of people jumping the party's ship. Democrats accounted for 70 percent of the voters in her precinct, one of seven at the village's high school.

"That's a complete reversal of what it normally is, even more so," she said. "I've never seen a switch like this."

The defectors had motives both pure and sinister.

One woman voted for Clinton in hopes of delivering John McCain a weaker debate opponent. Another picked Obama because her vote could help deny Clinton and her husband a return trip to the White House.

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/03/gop_voters_crossing_over_in_la.html

[LulaMay]

1. Open primaries are wrong. They are abused by others for strategy.

[Cant trust em]

3. They should be open for undeclareds

not moles for the opposition.

[grantcart]

5. agree

[Tippy]

4. Agreed......

[Ian David]

2. Oh, I thought this was going to be about something else.

You had my hopes up for a second.

[Algorem]

6. then we'd only have to hear their crap from the other side

ghost crap

[progdog]

7. Lol

:rofl:

[Kittycat]

9. I'm expecting to see a RickRoll link soon.

[tridim]

8. It's going to be a wash

Half will vote Obama because they actually like him and half will vote Hillary because Rush told them to.

[seabeyond]

10. this is just fuckin ridiculous. repugs have NO intergrity what so ever and seem proud or

totally clueless about it. disgusting

[gravity]

11. To be fair

I would be crossing over if the Democratic nominee was locked up

[seabeyond]

15. i would be crossing over if i could cause all the local races are republican

and i want my vote to count for who i think will be the best republican to run for our local offices. not to fuck with the republican party. but i cant vote for those races because of the dem primary

[Radical Activist]

13. Didn't Kos suggest doing this for MI Dems?

[seabeyond]

16. then shame on them. i dont know. i havent liked KOS since their negative attacks on kerry

in 2004 and dont pay attention to them

[skipos]

17. He did, and many people disagreed with him.

If we don't like Rush Limbaugh having an effect on our primaries, we need to change the rules.

[Radical Activist]

12. In either case they don'y like Hillary.

Pretty easy to see who can win more cossovers in November.

[David Zephyr]

14. And this explains Hillary's praising John McCain today: To get GOP votes.

Now it all makes sense.

[ctaylors6]

18. ...

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20080302&name=Mallard_Fillmore

(sorry I couldn't post the image)

[bklyncowgirl]

19. Rush Limbaugh urged listeners to vote for Clinton

I wonder if that has anything to do with it.