Bernie's NY Independents
We’re hearing a lot of complaining from Bernie backers who were registered as independents in NY about their inability to vote in the Democratic primaries. My issue with all this complaining is two-fold. One, how many of these NY independents who are now backing Bernie would EVER have voted for ANY republican? If Bernie's message is one that resonates with them, then in what universe would they be on the fence between voting republican or democratic? If you created a Venn diagram, the Bernie universe doesn't overlap with the republican universe in any way. Which leads me to my second issue... I have to wonder why these people, knowing full well that registering as an independent in NY means they can't vote in the democratic primary, would choose to register as an independent? If they truly wanted to influence the democratic primar y , they should have registered as a Democrat in the first place . I get the philosophical motivation behind registering as an ...