D’s Want ‘Republican,’ Not ‘GOP’ After Rossi Name
The state Democratic Party this afternoon filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court, asking a judge to force Secretary of State Sam Reed to list gubernatorial challenger Dino Rossi as preferring the "Republican Party," rather than Rossi's currently-listed "GOP Party." Yes, yes, Republicans and the GOP (Grand Old Party) are the same thing. But it turns out that a lot of people apparently don't know that. A June poll by Washington pollster Stuart Elway found that 25 percent of likely voters didn't know that GOP meant Republican. (Of that number, Elway found, 7 percent thought it meant Democratic, and 3 percent thought it was a third party)/Rich Roesler, Eye On Olympia. More here.
Question: Should people be allowed to vote if they don't know that "GOP" and "Republican" are the same thing?