“Also realize that since Dems have very few viable statewide candidates, and Texas is an open primary state, that Dems often vote in the Republican Primary to do what they can to skew the vote to the most unelectable “R” candidate.”
That’s exactly what they do here in Missouri; that’s how we got Todd Akin as our nominee, lost the general election and kept Claire McCaskill in the Senate. McCaskill and her team pushed for Akin really hard in the primary and Democrats voted in droves, since she was a shoe-in in the Democratic primary.
Open primaries should be outlawed.
Akin was winning until he made a careless (but not false) gaffe that the Leftist media latched onto and buried him with it.
I wouldn’t fault Akin too much. Any nominee would have been blackmailed.
/johnny