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Originally Posted by Ben E Lou
You register as R, D, or I in NC. You have to be pretty firmly entrenched in your political identity, or simply not thinking much about it, though. A registered independent can vote in either primary that he or she chooses. It’s the only smart play if you think that your preferred party might go nutso. (So says the guy who moved here in 2014, read the rules, and immediately registered as an I despite never having voted in a D primary.* Total no-brainer, and BOY did I become happy not to be associated with the Republican Party in any way a year and a half or so later....)
*—Well, other than sending Cynthia home back in the day.  |
Yeah. For the reasons Ben explained, it makes sense to be registered with neither party here. I started as unaffiliated. But I did change my registration to Democrat at some point On the very small chance that my career path may have taken me in a direction where I would have worked in some sort of political capacity.
It did not. But I am not motivated enough to change back to unaffiliated because, as noted, what’s the point?