But the pantywaist wing of the GOP always liked allowing democrats to vote for republicans, to water down the conservative electorate.
Those days are slowly coming to an end.
I don’t understand why there would ever be a closed primary.
Dems just reregister to vote for who they want to run against
It ain’t rocket surgery
About time GOP States Close their Primaries.
Primaries should be closed. Each party is selecting their candidates for the election. We need an electoral college on the precinct level.
I looked at the Georgia elections and the crossover votes were negligible. Start by looking at the down-ticket statewide races. Crossover voters do not vote for PSC seats, state Agriculture commissioners, etc. If the numbers are consistent with the top-of-the-ticket votes then you can get an idea of how many there were.
Do you like Mitch McConnell, much? Closed primaries will give people like him even more power with the state parties. Consider KY.
Help me understand how I may be wrong, please.
After all this time, I’m still amazed that someone somewhere once thought open primaries were a good idea, and especially that other people said, “Fantastic! Let’s do it!”
It’s about time. All conservative states need to do the same. Also, these wishy-washy GOPe members need to be voted out and true conservatives need to replace them. Only then will we make any progress. I’m tired of the “go-along-to-get -along” squishes.
Maybe we should do away with primaries altogether and just have a wide open general election.
Tennessee has been using the ‘open primary’ system to cripple conservative candidates for YEARS...that is how a conservative state winds up electing weak and moderate candidates every election cycle.
Finally.
Of course, the do this after the RINO won the Senate primary with the help of crossover votes...
Wonder why yahoo put this political story in their sports section?
Kinda funny. Did you know "wahl" means "vote" in German?
Now lets do KT, MS and SC
Good move. Open primaries give us the likes of Lindsey Graham, John Cornyn and Roger Wicker. As a poll worker I have seen known 🐀s in my precinct crossover and elect RINOs.
Wanna double the chances of a patriot winning the seat?
Find and run MAGA red Donald Dem DINOs in ‘Rat races.
Until then we’re fighting half a battle.
I think a closed primary is a must but the GOP need to go a step further. If a voter registers as a rep they have to remain a rep until after the general. Same thing for a dem. Non of this jumping back & forth during the primaries and general.
Open primaries must be ended. They are ridiculous on their face. A political party is a club not a government entity. I know the Supreme Court oked open primaries but they were totally wrong in doing so.
They are a remnant of the days when Democrat/communists totally controlled states in the South and had “open” primaries specifically to ruin any chance the Republicans might have to win.
Great news... We needclosef primaries in ALL STATES.