I have mentioned a few times how many registered Democrats are essentially closet Republicans there are on Long Island. Until this past special election when Mazi Pilip ran, I don't think this was understood much. Both my current and previous count legislators are/were registered Democrats who ran as Republicans.
Additionally, I have heard numerous people, usually older voters, make it a point to tell us poll workers they are shocked to realize they are registered Democrats when they come in to vote. Most of these people state they haven't been or voted for a Democrat for 30+ years. Long Island isn’t Kentucky or West Virginia where people come from a long history of family members being registered Democrats as to have some ancestral tie to the party they like maintaining.
Considering the choke-hold the Republican machine has on Long Island including turning what should be civil service jobs into patronage jobs, you would think the opposite would be true: closet Democrats registered and running campaigns as Republicans.
Here is one example from a recent Newsday article on early voting in next week’s presidential primary:
Daniel Vanvelsor, 58, of Garden City Park, said he is a registered Democrat but "almost always vote Republican." He said he voted for Dean Phillips, who dropped out of the race in early March, "because I don’t like Biden."
It just seems really weird to me.
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