I'm sceptical this happens in any sort of large numbers. Voting in an R primary means not voting in a D primary, which are contested in most presidential elections; as the lady from Idaho who wrote to Josh last year described, there's a pretty big stigma against participating in Republican elections when you're a Democrat; and when it do…
I'm sceptical this happens in any sort of large numbers. Voting in an R primary means not voting in a D primary, which are contested in most presidential elections; as the lady from Idaho who wrote to Josh last year described, there's a pretty big stigma against participating in Republican elections when you're a Democrat; and when it does happen, I would assume the vast majority of it is Dems in deep red states voting for the less extreme of the Republican candidates, which I would view as a good thing.
I'm sceptical this happens in any sort of large numbers. Voting in an R primary means not voting in a D primary, which are contested in most presidential elections; as the lady from Idaho who wrote to Josh last year described, there's a pretty big stigma against participating in Republican elections when you're a Democrat; and when it does happen, I would assume the vast majority of it is Dems in deep red states voting for the less extreme of the Republican candidates, which I would view as a good thing.