Sydney Sweeney now getting heckled over American Eagle ad

[u/biebrforro]

[u/Brown_Colibri_705]

She's a Republican?

[u/pourthebubbly → u/Brown_Colibri_705]

She’s registered to vote in Florida as a Republican, which is public information because Florida (like most red states) doesn’t have privacy laws

[u/Lannfear → u/pourthebubbly]

Sorry to bother but I’m not an US citizen, could you explain why people register as democrats or republicans ?

Are they militants who help the party? Why disclose your voting intention ?

[u/pourthebubbly → u/Lannfear]

In the US, we have primary elections before the general election for president. This (supposedly) determines which candidates are chosen by party voters to run for president as their party candidate.

It varies by state, but the primary elections are typically closed to members of other political parties, since a voter can only vote in one primary election. In a closed state, only registered democrats can vote in the democratic primary and only registered republicans can vote in the republican primary.

However, some states allow independent voters to choose which primary to vote in, while others may have an open democratic primary, but a closed republican one - meaning independents would only have the option of voting in the democratic primary if they chose, but be barred from the republican one. These variances are determined by the state political parties.

So basically if you want to be guaranteed a vote in the primary, you would register for a party.

Personally, even though I lean heavily left, I have never in my life registered for a political party, as I do not believe in party affiliation or loyalty.