> My question is this: Doesn't his dropping from the party constitute a kind of fraud on the voters who put him in office? His constituents voted for him as a Republican. I'm NOT Republican by any means, but I still think he has a responsibility to the people he represents to continue to represent them as he did when they voted for him. Otherwise, what's to stop someone who runs in an area highly populated by Democrats from running as a Democrat, then six months after he's elected, announcing he is suddenly a Repulican and will vote accordingly? Why has no one else been as bothered by this aspect of the defection as I have?
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> Mousie

This is why, when voting for someone, one should see what the canidate's positions are and base their vote on that rather than saying "I'm going to vote for the Republican candidate because he's a Republican and I'm one too."

-Faux Pas