2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Breaks 20% in a National Poll for the First Time; Gaining Support Across Demographics [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)It probably served Republicans more who identified with Libertarians or other more right wing parties to sign up as Republicans then to help those fringe candidates in the Republican primaries where there were and still are a lot more candidates.
I think this time around though, many Greens and other independents who have left the Democratic Party when disaffected by the corporatist takeover by the DLC/Third Way types, will have a good reason to tactically register as Democrats as needed in their states to help them vote in the primaries for Bernie.
And in a state like California or Washington now with top two primaries, they won't need to reregister with more open primaries there. Here in Oregon, since we voted that down (which I am thankful for for other reasons), we will need to get independents registered as Democrats for them to vote for Bernie in the primaries.