Item: Numbers game: Republicans outnumber Democrats in party affiliation forms in Kootenai County/Alecia Warren, Coeur d'Alene Press

More Info: So far, 8,011 county voters have checked Republican as their party affiliation, according to the county Elections Office. Only 926 have marked Democrat affiliation on their forms. ... The largely Republican races explain voters' tendency to paint themselves red, said Tina Jacobson, chair of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee. If you want to have any say at all, you have to vote in the Republican party," she said. That is bolstered, Jacobson said, by the fact that there are candidates this year who have ran as Democrats before and now have an R by their names. "Liberals who normally would've been liberals, since the Democrats are on life support here, they switch to the Republican party," Jacobson said. "This isn't rocket science."

Question: Do you think the closed GOP primary will actually attract a higher cross-over of Democrats voting Republican than has occurred in the past?