Personally, I don’t think it was McCain’s fault.
I think the fault lies with the republican party for allowing open primaries. We need every state to have closed primaries that do not let independents or democrats vote for our nominee.
McCain got the nomination because of open primaries. He would not have gotten the nomination without them.
Ageed. We need to close some of the primaries like NH. They gave us McCain to begin with so thanks for nothing. We should either do that or start our Primaries in reliably red states then on to NH. Start with SC and NH.
We should end primaries period.
1. It is expensive to open enough polls to allow everyone to vote in a primary. Why should government tax money be used to help a political party (they are both private entities, btw) pick their nominee?
2. Voters in primaries are often as ill informed about the candidates. Often it comes down to being little more than a poularity/beauty contest.
3. Caucuses don’t cost the state/taxpayers as much money as primaries.
4. Caucuses tend to be dominated by the party faithful. People that follow the issues and candidates.