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Tenn. Republican Party leaders reject closed primaries
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| 2/7/15
Posted on 02/08/2015 6:14:18 AM PST by cotton1706
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The ability to elect moderates to thwart conservatism must be protected!!
To: cotton1706
The GOPe of the UNIPARTY doing what has to be done to keep its power.
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posted on
02/08/2015 6:17:41 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: cotton1706
The Republican Party doesn't like closed primaries.
/johnny
To: cotton1706
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posted on
02/08/2015 6:21:19 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
This has Lamar Alexander written all over it.
To: cotton1706
It's leftists that are pushing for gender of the day - wake up one morning and associate as being a male, female tomorrow.
As with GOPe leftists - wake up today a repub, wake up tomorrow a 'Rat.
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posted on
02/08/2015 6:24:01 AM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: cotton1706
Same way it goes every few years in S.C. too. It’s a plague.
To: cotton1706
Open primaries are the reason we have senators like the two from Tennessee and that one from SC.
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posted on
02/08/2015 6:56:38 AM PST
by
Will88
To: cotton1706
Corker, Alexander and Haslam along with the rest of the GOPe have to be able to exercise the “Mississipi Option” to stop Tea Party Conservatives in primaries......
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posted on
02/08/2015 7:08:30 AM PST
by
Nextrush
(OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
To: cotton1706
The panel voted 37-29 on Saturday against the resolution aimed at requiring party registration to vote in primary contests.
It might be interesting to know how many of those 37 are also open-borders advocates/supporters.
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posted on
02/08/2015 7:30:12 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Will88
So the RINOs depend on Democrat cross-overs to stay in power?
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posted on
02/08/2015 7:39:53 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
(The left doesn't recognize the difference between good and evil or rather has it backward.MtnClimber)
To: TomGuy
Just need to target the five weakest of the thirty seven and you can change this.
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posted on
02/08/2015 7:41:26 AM PST
by
jimpick
To: Savage Beast
And with the Democrat side of things pretty much sewn-up for Hillary, there will be no shortage of Democrats and swing voters freed-up to influence the GOP side of things.
To keep primaries “open” is to sabotage the conservative movement.
To: cotton1706
Why should we allow Democrats, who it seems will have no real primary battle this time around, pick the candidate they want to run against?
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posted on
02/08/2015 7:51:55 AM PST
by
logic101.net
(If libs believe in Darwin and natural selection why do they get hacked off when it happens?)
To: cotton1706
Closed primaries means conservatives win. The establishment cant allow that.
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posted on
02/08/2015 7:52:48 AM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Hey Obama! Wake up and piss! The World's on FIRE!)
To: Savage Beast
So the RINOs depend on Democrat cross-overs to stay in power? It would be a definite factor in open primary states. Probably no good data to show just how large a factor in any given election. But in states where there is little or no chance of electing a Dim to statewide office, why wouldn't many Dims take the opportunity to vote for the most liberal Republican candidate?
That definitely happened in Mississippi, even though it was in the general election rather than a primary. Plenty of Dims around who'd enjoy making mischief in a Republican primary.
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posted on
02/08/2015 8:23:47 AM PST
by
Will88
To: Will88
Correction: the crossover voting by Dims in Mississippi was in the Republican primary runoff (recruited by Mississippi Rinos).
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posted on
02/08/2015 8:38:40 AM PST
by
Will88
To: cotton1706
In comparison with an open Republican primary, Louisianas jungle primary system is starting to make sense. At least in the jungle primary, Democrats have to at least place second with their own candidate, so their ability to game the system by voting for a Republican spoiler is limited.
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posted on
02/08/2015 8:39:18 AM PST
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
('Liberalism'; is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
To: cotton1706
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posted on
02/08/2015 8:57:16 AM PST
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: cotton1706
“Supporters of closed primaries say crossover voting can unduly influence the outcome of nomination contests.”
Yes, we can’t allow that, we must have a “counter” to the Conservative wave
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posted on
02/08/2015 9:01:37 AM PST
by
duffee
(Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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