yes, harder to cheat
Anything that foils the chances the Dems can cheat their way through election season is fine with me.
I think we need a nationwide Super Tuesday primary.
Do we really like the idea of a bunch of Iowans choosing who the candidate is going to be?
Or state conventions. That way, real Republican party members can select their nominees, rather than having open primaries where “operation Chaos” tactics can be used and non-GOPers select our nominees.
Some poll they took at Fox indicated that Trikki Nikki got about 50% of her support last night from independents and ‘Rats. Fortunately, they did not cost Trump anything. I’m guessing that these non-republicans will show up in New Hampshire and they could cost Trump there.
And end same day party switches. A huge part of Haley’s votes came from Democrats with zero intent to vote repub in the general.
Why would you want to move the GOP to Azerbaijan?
Doesn’t matter in Kalifornia. The top two democrats will be on the final ballot.
Tucker pointed out how logical the caucus process is, AND safe.
How about we just have closed primaries?
That way guys like Kemp and Raffensberger can’t do spire with democrats to try and rig the primaries like they did in 2022
Yes. Especially in states with open primaries.
Only if they aren’t open and all eligible caucus goers had to be registered party members for at least one year prior.
The turnout was the lowest in a decade, mostly due to bitter cold and snow but it does in a way disenfranchise the legitimately homebound, workbound, elderly, special needs etc.
Question:
Someone posted a Rush Limbaugh quote the other day saying the Iowa caucuses are just glorified straw polls and do not assign delegates to the convention, and thus do not affect who is the nominee.
If that s true, how do Iowans vote for who is nominee?
The GOP should pay for its own primaries.
When state governments pay for our primaries, government writes the rules.
When we pay for our own primaries, we write the rules.
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I sound just like a Democrat! I guess that makes me "bipartisan".
Open primary elections are a catastrophe for Republicans. There are always a bunch of Democrats and faux-Independents who crossover and "monkey-wrench" vote for the weakest possible Republican candidate.
Closed primary elections, where voters can only vote for candidates of the party in which the voter is registered, are a reasonable approach. That shuts out the "Independents" and is completely justified. If they want a voice in the selection of candidates, they should form their own parties and promote their own candidates.
Everybody gets to vote in the general election. Once. Dead people, imaginary people, non-citizens, and non-residents excluded of course. The Democrats will object to that last bit as "voter suppression". TFB for them.
Caucuses are easier in small states. They would be almost impossible in a large, urban state. Too many people working too many shifts.
WA did a caucus once and it was a shit show.
The Republicans have a mix of primaries and caucuses, along with a few conventions, mostly because the selection of delegates to the national convention is made at the state level subject to certain rules laid down by the Republican National Committee.
The first four states ... Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada ... are relatively small, spread around the country, and two of these are caucuses and two are primaries. In these and other early states, delegates are chosen by proportional representation. These states are supposed to give a lot of opportunity for candidates to prove themselves.
After these first several states, contests mostly turn into winner-takes-all. The later states are supposed to quickly close the deal and get us to a decision.
These rules weren’t written for Trump and against him, but to work in any year. No. They’re not perfect, but what in this life is.
If you want to change the rules, I suggest getting with your state Republican organization. Link up with like-minded Republicans. Be there, year in and year out, and work at it, together with others.
Trump, as the leader of the party, has or would have a lot of influence. He showed up and joined our party in 2016. During his presidency, his appointments and nominations were hit and miss, both for the government itself and for the party (however, he did a very good job with his judicial nominations).
As for us, we’re going to try real hard to elect a President, a Senate and a House of Representatives, to elect Governors, state legislators, and local office holders from county boards of supervisors to school board members. Our problem isn’t Trump or his people, but the other party. That party uses our tax dollars to trap people into lives of dependency and cheats in elections every way they can.
Anything to eliminate crossover voting by Dems. They came out en mass in South Carolina in 2008 and destroyed Fred Thompson’s campaign by voting for McStain - and we know what that got us. As far as I am concerned, crossover voting is akin to fraud - you should have to prove that you have been a registered member of a party for at least 2 years before being able to vote in its primaries.
State conventions or cauci, and they should be scheduled in order from most Repub to least. Red States should be picking our candidates last.