Ken Berwitz
Nearly 46,000 Pennsylvania Democrats have gone Republicansince the start of 2016, twice as many as have shifted the other way, as a wildprimary fight continues to upend the business of politics as usual andchallenge the status quo.
Needless to say, much of this movement is being attributed tothe rise of Donald Trump and the so-called “Ditch and Switch”movement, which leans on lifelong Democrats to abandon the party, registerRepublican and help ensure Trump\’s place in the November general election.
“With the increase in support in exit polls for Trump among working class,blue-collar Democrats, it is my belief that these are people who fall into thatgenre,” said (Dr. G. Terry) Madonna, who is director of the Centerfor Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall College inLancaster.
In Massachusetts, as many as 20,000 Democrats have gone fromblue-to-red this year with Trump cited as a primary reason. And in Ohio, asmany as 1,000 blue collar workers have promised to switch parties and vote forTrump.
Why is it that – again, as always seems to be the case – a study is conducted asking about Trump\’s popularity among Republicans (who can then be classified as mouth-breathing neanderthals for supporting someone like him), but Democrats are not asked whether they would give trump their vote? What is politico.com afraid of? Do the people there avoid asking out of fear over what they might find out? Or, is it that they did ask the question and did generate the information, but don\’t want to tell us what it is?
