Republicans switched for variety of reasons

Republicans-turned-Democrats flocked to the polls Tuesday for tons of reasons.

Some became disillusioned with the GOP. Some admitted they wanted to unclutter their existent favorite's way to the White Person House in November. And others simply wanted a say in the historical primary.

In Bucks and L. M. Montgomery counties, the race attracted 50,000 new Democrats to the party. Statewide, they were joined by another 100,000.

One of them, Dan Henrich of Upper Berth Moreland, called himself a "Democrat for the day."

Last calendar month he switched his political political political party enrollment from Republican to vote for Barack Obama because in Keystone State electors must be registered members of a political party to vote in that party's primary.

"I'm not thrilled with [John] McCain," he said. "I believe Obama will convey a good amount of reform. Edmund Hillary [Clinton] do me sick."

But the 20-year-old Temple University political scientific discipline pupil is a Republican at heart, especially when it come ups to abortion.

"I am strongly pro-life," said Henrich, who anticipates the adjacent president wielding enormous influence in this country given the advanced ages of respective Supreme Court justices.

He bes after to travel back to the GOP, primarily for local election reasons, but is still open if the November full general election conflict is between McCain and Obama.

Henrich said he makes have got reserves about the Grand Canyon State senator, especially over the warfare in Republic Of Iraq and his program to go on some Shrub policies. But a McCain-Clinton race is a no-brainer for him.

Republican re-registration card game were available at every polling place, geared toward people like Henrich who have got strayed from the flock for this monumental twenty-four hours but are truly Republicans. The message is clear — we will welcome you back with unfastened arms.

In Langhorne, more than than a twelve electors in the borough snatched word forms to re-register as Republicans after casting their ballots for one of the two Democrat candidates, opinion poll workers said.

In New United Kingdom Township, occupant Gerard Park left the Republican Party to vote for Obama but might switch over back if Bill Clinton wins.

Park, 37, have caught flak catcher from his sister for changing his political party affiliation. "I like what [Obama] does. I'm not affectionate of Hillary. I don't like McCain," Park said after casting his ballot at the township edifice on Park Avenue.

However, if Bill Clinton locks up the Democratic nomination, he'd see switching back to the Republican Party to support McCain. The New House Of York senator is, after all, his sister's favourite candidate.

Michelle Dungan of Horsham switched to the Democratic Party to vote for Clinton.

"I sort of feel like there's going to be a Democrat in office. I wanted to do certain my ballot would count," the former Republican said. Dungan said she would possibly switch over back.

"I'm not a Bill Clinton fan. I was sort of happy to see them go," she said. "But of the three candidates, I felt she was the best option out of the three."

Gene Delange, 50, of Irish Capital was portion of "Operation Chaos," a program contrived by well-known conservative talking show host Haste Limbaugh to have got Republicans switch over political parties for the primary to vote for Clinton. The thought is to lengthen the conflict between Bill Clinton and Obama to give McCain a better opportunity to win.

"I like the thought of the Democrats battling it out to the last minute," said Delange, who voted for Clinton.

Delange walked out of the polling land site at the Irish Capital Fire Station with a elector enrollment in manus and said he would soon switch over back to being a Republican.

Staff authors Hilary Bentman, Erectile Dysfunction Kracz, Annie Tasker, Danny Adler and Eric White Person contributed to this story.

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Republicans eye Florida for Super Tuesday momentum

(CNN) -- Republican presidential aspirants fanned out Lord'S Day across Florida, clamoring for electors in the state's Republican Party primary on Tuesday.

Republican hopefuls, here at Thursday's argument in Boca Raton, Florida, are fighting for primary ballots in Florida.

"We're going to win in Florida," former New House Of York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani vowed on CBS' "Face the Nation."

He added, "I'm confident that we're going to win."

But Giuliani -- who have got staked his political political campaign on a Sunshine State triumph after largely ignoring the early competitions -- trails his two prima challengers in recent polls.

Polls propose U.S. of Grand Canyon State and former Bay State are in a stopping point conflict for Tuesday's contest, the concluding primary before Superintendent Tuesday or "Super Duper Tuesday" as some are calling it, February 5 -- when more than than 20 states throw their nominating contests.

McCain received a encouragement Saturday when Sunshine State Gov. Charlie Crist endorsed him.

"I believe it's going to be a stopping point race here on Tuesday, but I, I believe we got some good momentum," McCain told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

While his triumphs in New Hampshire and South Carolina have given new life to his campaign, McCain declined to theorize on what it may be like to confront the eventual Democratic campaigner in a general election.

"I've got a pretty monolithic ego, but not quite so much as I'm planning on that yet," he joked.

Romney, however, did not throw back during an interview on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."

"I believe they'd happen a race against me to be the most challenging," he said of the Democrats. Contrasting himself against Sen. Barack Obama, he said, "My record of accomplishment, compared with his rhetoric, is going to be a pretty blunt contrast."

Romney ripped into McCain.

"I'm all about the future, all about advancement for America. Sen. McCain is person who's been there for 25 years. He can speak about the past better than anybody I know, but I don't believe that United States desires to turn back."

The two work force have got been locked in a acrimonious conflict over their places on the Republic Of Republic Of Iraq war.

McCain, meanwhile, furthered an in progress difference with Romney over the Iraq war. He told NBC that Romney supported "secret" timetables for pulling military personnel from Iraq.

"And if we'd have got done that, as the Democrats and some Republicans wanted to do, we would've lost that rush and aluminum Qaeda would be celebrating a triumph over the United States of America."

Romney have called the onslaughts false and "dishonest" and insisted McCain apologize.

"He cognizes that, like him, I'm in favour of the troop surge. I've never suggested that we put a day of the month certain to retreat from Iraq," Romney said.

Republican campaigners will debate the issues Wednesday at 8 p.m. on CNN in their concluding meeting before the Superintendent Tuesday primaries. The Democratic campaigners will debate on Thursday.

Former Land Of Opportunity , who won the Ioway caucuses, is trailing in Florida, according to polls.

Speaking Lord'S Day to CNN's "Late Edition," Huckabee rejected the words of a New House Of York Times column endorsing McCain for the Republican nomination.

The column called Huckabee "affable" and "reassuring," but said his "policies state the existent story. To pull Republican primary voters, he have go an anti-immigrant absolutist. His interpolation of faith into the race, herding Mr. Romney into a defence of his beliefs, disqualifies him from the Ellipse Office."

"I was a governor longer than I was a pastor," Huckabee said, complaining of "soft bigotry" toward Christian evangelicals.

"Is our civilization so shifted ... that the fact that I was a governor and led in instruction reform, in health-care reform, rebuilt our route system -- we bury all of that, that I cut taxes, streamline government, we bury all of that?"

Huckabee said his political campaign will be "on our feet, not just after Superintendent Duper Tuesday, but on the platform to take the nomination" at the Republican convention in September.