Get a load of this: (GOP) Legislator switches party to cast vote

AUGUSTA - It might be a genuine case of cross-party appeal. Or you might chalk it up to political gamesmanship.

For now, the Democratic Party's one-seat hold on control in the Maine Senate has grown to two with the re-registration of Sen. Karl Turner of Cumberland from Republican to Democrat.

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Turner said Thursday he switched parties so that he would be able to vote in the 1st Congressional District Democratic primary on Tuesday and will return to the GOP fold afterward.

Turner, a lifelong Republican, said his temporary registration switch represented "no change of allegiance." He declined to declare whom he would vote for in the Democratic contest, but there has been Republican talk that supporting Iraq war veteran Adam Cote for the Democratic congressional nomination might be a desirable option.

http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/028293.html

Tony Payne, the executive director of the nonpartisan pro-business Alliance for Maine's Future who sought the southern Maine Republican congressional nomination in 1992, said Thursday he too had registered as a Democrat and was voting for Cote.

"I have been surprised at the number of people who have done just the same thing, largely in support of Adam Cote," Payne said.


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Electorate entropification has reached the point where it negates the need for keeping the illusion of a two party system intact; a system where the marginal benefits produced are viewed as better than nothing and rejoiced.
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Okay, y'all know the drill. Lefties over here, righties over there. It's showtime, people! Places!
--Gore Vidal

Reminds me of the 1950s and earlier, when Democrats would register as Republicans so they could vote in the Republican primary. This was back in the days when the GOP ruled supreme and whoever won the primary was the presumptive winner of the general election.