[Charles Martel]

But....the real culprit here is the Republican Establishment nationally and in Mississippi. The MS Senate & House should have amended the state election law so that only Republicans can vote in Republican primaries and vice versa for Democrats. If this had been done, McDaniel would have politcally slaughtered Cochran!!! Correct it...right now!!!

Correcting the open-primaries problem nationwide would be a decade-long task, *if* the GOP had the political will to press the issue. Which it does not.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Why would it take a decade??? This is not an amendment to the USA constitution...it is a state legislative issue. A vote by the the state legislators and endorsement by the governor does the job very quickly!!! IMHO.....all primaries should be closed allowing only Republican or Democrat voters to participate in their own primaries...period!!!