[cotton1706]

Hopefully, the contested democrat primary will keep democrats on their own side, keeping Little Lindsay under 50% and forcing a runoff!

[sickoflibs]

If I was a SC resident and Grahamnesty got the nomination again I would NOT vote for him in the general election.

[chris37]

And why has the GOP of SC not changed this?

I imagine because it does not want to.

[bkopto]

The Republican and Democrat parties are like Pro Wrestling: scripted battles to get the chumps fired up, distracting them from the real issues and real reform.

[null and void]

Yet the Stupid Party won’t close their primaries. Go figure.

[longtermmemmory]

but in the runoff there will be another open primary.

[arderkrag]

Full disclosure: I'm not a GOP member, nor do I think I would ever join.

The GOP is crazy to allow open primaries. The party would be better served by closing primaries and becoming more insular.

[Resettozero]

So what can conservatives in SC do about this? The answer? Require a closed primary where only Republicans vote for Republicans.

Still won't be enough. Also need more time between primary and any runoff, as it is in Texas.

Anybody can register and vote Republican in the primaries (and they do) then vote for whomever the Dems want in the General Election.

[rdcbn]

what the Republicans need to do is run a democrat challenger in the Democrat Primary so the democrat ringers stay on their own side of the aisle.

[Will88]

I don’t live in SC, but would love to seen Lindsey gone from the Senate. But I’ve thought this open primary situation might make him unbeatable. The Dims know they are very unlikely to elect a Dim in SC now, so they crossover and vote for Lindsey and get pretty close on many issues.

[Prospero]

One day, even if it has to be in a parallel universe, in a "more perfect" union... perhaps one where Geo. Washington survived an additional 18 months... Americans will catch on to the stranglehold the two national league political parties have on the States.

Beyond the insanity of allowing Democrats to choose their opposition, what business does the State have spending taxpayer's money to play any role in choosing a private institution's nominees?

Why do we allow it?

Why do we allow the several Boards of Elections to record party affiliation with voter registration?

To facilitate our primary contests? Is that really a compelling state interest? If your candidate opposes public sector unions or a single plank on their platform, for example, is it really wise to allow any state bureaucracy any role whatsoever in the process that makes him a private institution's official nominee?

Why should a candidate's party label appear on a ballot at all? (Thankfully, a few states have eliminated straight-party voting.)

And I won't even begin to describe the presidential primary tournament. Republicans have allowed themselves to get screwed by this Rube Goldberg device every four years for decades, now. Each time, this unconstitutional madhouse vomits up a McCain, a Dole, a Romney, and each time Conservatives finds themselves marginalized before the snow melts each election year, afterward forgetting it was the merry-go-round ride that tossed them under the bus by the time the carnival returns four years later.