Posted on 02/08/2015 6:14:18 AM PST by cotton1706
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The executive committee of the state Republican Party has turned back an effort to hold closed primaries in Tennessee.
The panel voted 37-29 on Saturday against the resolution aimed at requiring party registration to vote in primary contests.
Currently, Tennessee voters aren’t registered by party, and people sometimes vote in a particular primary because of campaign developments rather than party affiliation.
Supporters of closed primaries say crossover voting can unduly influence the outcome of nomination contests.
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The GOPe of the UNIPARTY doing what has to be done to keep its power.
/johnny
UniParty™ bump.
This has Lamar Alexander written all over it.
As with GOPe leftists - wake up today a repub, wake up tomorrow a 'Rat.
Same way it goes every few years in S.C. too. It’s a plague.
Open primaries are the reason we have senators like the two from Tennessee and that one from SC.
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......
So the RINOs depend on Democrat cross-overs to stay in power?
Just need to target the five weakest of the thirty seven and you can change this.
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.
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?
Closed primaries means conservatives win. The establishment cant allow that.
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.
Correction: the crossover voting by Dims in Mississippi was in the Republican primary runoff (recruited by Mississippi Rinos).
In comparison with an open “Republican” primary, Louisiana’s “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.
That was a mistake!
“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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