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The simultaneously voted for Trump and for a Democrat for governor here in NC.
It's very likely.
The voters are not as "Deplorable" as some on the far left like to think.
People do split votes from time to time. It is hard to say how many voted for both Trump and Cooper, however since both elections were close it only took a small % of people splitting the ticket to have the differing results.
With that said at this point it certainly seems like Democrats are more engaged. Now that doesn't mean it will hold true in November, they will all vote straight ticket or any of that, however it could be enough to make some areas competitive that weren't figured to be as such, flip some areas, etc/
For years, the Republicans in Texas had only one candidate for each position on the ballot. It was common among most whites to vote in the Democratic primary for the candidate that would be the easiest for the Republican to beat.
It has not been socially acceptable to confess to being a Democrat in years.
Typically, precinct conventions are doing good if 6-8 people show up. It is usually the poll workers plus a couple more.
Operation Chaos, my paired precinct, brought us 500+ voters. It took forever to sign in. The tally wasn't available until close to 9:30.
It was entertaining trying to figure outfit they were Limbaugh clones or were they really Ds.
I saw my across the neighbor of 16 years. And a neighbor i talked to daily. They never once said they were Ds. Even when I had signs in the yard, talked about party politics, etc. When I asked, Oh yes, we have always voted democratic.
I'm not sure I'm going to read too much into this. It may be that there are candidates not well liked on the ticket to the Democrats and people want to get their candidate on the ballot this fall while perhaps the Republican voters are largely okay with who is running. It's really hard to read too much into what happens with primaries. This November is the real election and what counts.
One must declare party affiliation in order to get a ballot. There are no candidates from other parties on the ballot.
I hope you realize in many states people can cross over to vote in primaries. In fact most of us think this is wrong. Just because you declare one party does not mean you will not vote for the other party even in the primaries. Often someone will declare Democrat but vote for a Republican they hope can make a difference or one who is totally defeatible (spelling) in Nov and visa versa. In other states, you do have to vote party line in the primaries.
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