I identify as “conservative” NOT “republican”. The only reason I keep my GOP registration is to try to impact the primaries. (A lot of good that does me in Marxist CA!)
Sounds like they really fear a conservative takeover when they want to delay legislative action until after the primary filing deadline.
They need to experience “other” consequences if they make it impossible to hold them accountable at the ballot box.
Two reasons:
1. Failure to articulate a coherent and sensible alternative to socialism;
2. The communist media/entertainment propaganda complex.
Right now, the average American doesn’t really know what they want. They really don’t have the inclination to intelligently sift through the issues. They also don’t have the backbone to make a hard decision and say “No” to people who want candy land, ham trees, 0bamaphones and a consequence free lifestyle. Other than that, they only know they don’t like what they have now, and are tired of being lied to.
Never before have the American people been so lost, and in so need of a clear vision that they can rally around. Unfortunately, we have been so balkanized into separate special interest groups, I don’t know that we can ever come together again as American.
Hmm. What happened in 1989????????
Hmmm. Wasn’ that the year Bush I took over from ROnald Reagan????
Do I see a trend here????
I know for sure that people in Texas are calling themselves independents now instead of Republican. I can’t give a percentage because our method of party ID is different than other states - maybe not all other states as I don’t know.
Here, you party designation begins when you vote in a party’s primary. If you vote in the Democrat Primary, that is stamped on your voter registration card and you are a Democrat until the next primary election two years from then. At that next primary time, if you vote in the Republican Primary, that is stamped on your voter card and you remain that until the next primary election. The general election in November has no bearing on which party you are and you may vote for any candidate, Republican or Democrat or mix them up, it doesn’t matter.
If you don’t vote in either party’s primary, you have no designation on your voter card and you never get one, therefore no one can be identified as an Independent.
Other parties outside Democrat and Republican, say Libertarian, must have their convention in the summer after the Democrats and Republicans have theirs, and they choose their candidates then (they don’t have a primary). They are not subject to the candidate filing deadline for Democrats and Republicans.
A count could be made now of how many Democrats and Republicans voted in their last primary, but those numbers are subject to change at the next primary.
If you move into Texas you cannot register as anything until there is a primary and then you get automatically labeled according to the primary in which you vote.
That is the way it is in Texas.