That bothers me a lot ~ the implications of that are not at all favorable to the TEA Party, nor to Conservatism.
It does mean too many Democrats were allowed to vote in the Republican primary.
The Tea Party needs to close the primaries to registered Republicans only. There is a lot we need to do to can the one party state the GOPe designed while we slept.
Not really comparable. Romney wasn’t challenging a long-time incumbent. For all intents and purposes, Romney was running unopposed, with votes for others merely to ‘make a statement.’
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