this may be a dupe but

[dorktv]

Was this true?
*snip*

South Carolina's primaries are open regardless of affiliation, but under state law the parties themselves administer the polling places. South Carolina Democratic leaders--worried, they claimed, about GOP manipulation--decided to require every voter to sign a card swearing that "I consider myself to be a Democrat." Independent voters went wild. So did African-Americans, who remember well the use of segregationist loyalty oaths to keep black voters from the polls. For days, the phones at Democratic headquarters here rang off the hook, even while party leaders--backed up, I have been repeatedly told, by John Kerry's campaign staff--tried to hold their ground. Finally just eighteen hours before the polls opened, state Democratic chair Joe Irwin cried uncle and rescinded the oath.

*snip*

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040216&s=shapiro2

How could anyone do that?

[lastknowngood]

1. Yea I will say this again as of yet not a single democratic

state has had a primary. The red states are picking the candidate for the democratic party. Wake the hell up!

[styersc]

4. Wait a minute-

because Gore failed to win in my state I'm less of a Democrat?

Are you saying that the GOP showed up big for Edwards in SC?

[Straight Shooter]

2. Damned if you do, damned if you don't

Not to tick anyone off here, but how does Kerry rate with Republican voters as an alternative to bush, hmm?

[dorktv]

3. That is a good question. Did you know that Arizona had 75,000

more people vote in our primary then was expected and almost none of them voted for Dean? I was at HQ everyday doing the data entry and I know we had more then the amount we ended up with.

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