[Shugee]

IMHO, the problem with the Mississippi race rests less with the open primary concept and more toward the widespread illegal vote buying and cheating within the voting system. Does anyone really think blacks would have come out to vote for Cochran if there was no walking around money as an incentive, even with the scare tactics?

Also, how can a state not have a solid system for determining voter eligibility or allow safeguards to be loosened willynilly if not to cheat? I think this was the worst case scenario in the full out Chicago style political aggression of the national and state RINO elites and an indication of the lack of control and corruption in the state voting process to allow disqualified voters to vote. It is not simply that the Tea Party was outsmarted and outspent as some freepers think.

Texans have made some good choices and we are further along in wresting political control away from the elites than Mississippi. We have Voter ID and a very conscientious Secretary of State, Nandita Berry, wife of Michael Berry. We are working to clean out the rino GOP party leaders at all state and local levels.

[thetallguy24]

I’m not sold on that. In my county, we had a Black guy run for DA in the Republican primary. He even admitted to going to Obama’s inauguration in 08. They were actively recruiting Democrats because there was no Democrat in any local primary running. Used that tactic to win in the runoff.

Democrats cross over all the time to vote for the most moderate, mainly because there aren’t any Democrats running. Or they just run as Republicans.

The Secretary of State has little to no power. Just look at Thomas Ratliff. He’s on the SBOE illegally, and the AG and SOS basically said, yeah he shouldn’t be on there, but we have no power to remove him.