From the AP:
Clinton-Obama race spurs party switches
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nearly 10,000 Oregonians — and thousands more voters in other late-primary states — have temporarily switched party affiliations in order to be able to vote in the red-hot Democratic primary. Oregon holds its contest on May 20.
Many voters say they have made the switch to grab the chance to have a voice they never thought they’d have, in a historic race that conventional wisdom had predicted would be decided on Super Tuesday in February.
Some renegade conservatives, though, will admit to switching in order to drag out the Democratic primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the hope of bruising both candidates along the way.
Talk radio hostess Victoria Taft, a familiar Republican voice in the Democratic-leaning Pacific Northwest, said that even in her wildest dreams, she never imagined urging her listeners to vote for Clinton.
Another AP STORY FROM TODAY:

Clinton-Obama race spurs party switches

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Matthew Buckingham, a stay-at-home father in Portland’s suburbs and lifelong Republican, is fired up about voting for Sen. John McCain in November.
But on May 20, the date of Oregon’s unexpectedly consequential presidential primary, Buckingham’s choice for the primary is still up in the air: Should it be Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, or Sen. Barack Obama?
Like nearly 10,000 Oregonians — and thousands more voters in other late-primary states — Buckingham has temporarily switched his party affiliation in order to be able to vote in the red-hot Democratic primary.
“The bottom line is, this is the first Oregon presidential primary I have ever voted in my life that actually could matter, and I am not going to pass up that chance just because I am registered with the wrong party,” said the 45-year-old Buckingham. “I want to make sure whoever gets in there, it is someone I can live with.”
Many voters say they have made the switch to grab the chance to have a voice they never thought they’d have, in a historic race that conventional wisdom had predicted would be decided on Super Tuesday in February.
Some renegade conservatives, though, will admit to switching in order to drag out the Democratic primary as long as possible in the hope of bruising both candidates along the way.
Talk radio hostess Victoria Taft, a familiar Republican voice in the Democratic-leaning Pacific Northwest, said that even in her wildest dreams, she never imagined urging her listeners to vote for Clinton.
But these days, Taft is firmly on the New York senator’s bandwagon, along with national conservative talk radio heavyweights like Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham.