OPEN PRIMARIES: Idaho will still be a red state
One of the major concerns of opponents to Open Primaries/ Proposition 1 is that was created to turn Idaho from a Red State to a Blue State. All you need to do to know this will not happen is take a look at the party affiliations posted on the VoteIdaho website by our Secretary of State, Phil McGrane.
According to the site, there are a little over 1 million registered voters in Idaho. Of these, nearly 700,000 are registered as Republicans (nearly 70%). Only 126,000 are registered as Democrats (12.6%) and 264,000 are registered as Unaffiliated voters. I’m not a math whiz, but even if every single Dem voted in the primary, they could not possibly swing the election to a Democratic victory.
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