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To: VinL

LOL. Just an educated guess here, but I do not think they will listen. We probably need to just tend to the issues, make sure the word gets out, and hope the voters (the early voters who count — grumble) choose wisely.

The primary system needs to be completely remade. Back when there were no cars or planes or television, it made sense to stagger the primaries. Now it just gives some Americans more of a say than other Americans. Plus the states that allow Democrats to vote in the Republican primary need to be forced by the party to put an end to that.


6 posted on 12/17/2015 4:30:44 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past; FourPeas

Notice the trumpkins are just so angry— and have no sense of humor? -:)

GHP— that’s what ted has been doing from the start- just tending to business.


15 posted on 12/17/2015 4:34:35 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I don’t think the party, if you mean the GOPe, would ever stop that, just look at how they used it to their toxic advantage in Mississippi.


23 posted on 12/17/2015 4:38:17 PM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
-- Back when there were no cars or planes or television, it made sense to stagger the primaries. --

Before cars, there weren't primaries. The first primary election (a creation of the political parties) was in 1910.

48 posted on 12/17/2015 4:51:37 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

The system definitely needs an overhaul. I live in an SEC primary state now so my (primary) vote actually matters, but before that the nomination was determined before my state’s primary. It was always frustrating to not really have a say.


52 posted on 12/17/2015 4:55:49 PM PST by FourPeas (Tone matters.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

If the state pays for the election, the state gets to make the rules. If the party pays, the party makes the rules. That’s how it was explained to me, anyway. Tell me if I’m wrong.

If it’s true, I guess it depends on how rich the state GOP is. In NY, there’s plenty of money, so the parties have enough and call the shots.


130 posted on 12/17/2015 6:17:36 PM PST by firebrand
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