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Angry Republican Leaders Ready To Shut Door On Open Primaries
Washington Times ^ | August 6, 2014 | Ralph Z. Hallow

Posted on 08/08/2014 9:04:31 PM PDT by Steelfish

Angry Republican Leaders Ready To Shut Door On Open Primaries Changes sought after Mississippi Democrats help Thad Cochran beat Chris McDaniel

“I have been a longtime supporter of closed primaries to choose our candidates for office,” said Chairman of the Republican National Committee Reince Priebus, “this is a position I have held for a long time and is consistent with the ... more > By Ralph Z. Hallow - August 6, 2014 CHICAGO — Any party that allows its opponents to help pick its candidates in “open” primaries is a PPINO — a “political party in name only” — say many Republican officials at their annual summer meeting.

Republican National Committee members and activists are still seething about reports that longtime Sen. Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican, enlisted Democrats to help him win his tough primary contest this summer against state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who was backed by the tea party.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: elections; openprimary
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To: Kennard

Zactly. First thing I thought too. Toss us a little bone for our troubles after a corrupted Mississippi win against McDaniel, which I hope craters right under the feet of Haley Barbour’s syndicate.

This is the first time I am aware that open primaries are arranged by state law, in some quarters, and not by party rules.


41 posted on 08/08/2014 11:40:10 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team fmore Marxists coming.)
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To: Steelfish

Reince, rinse, repeat.


42 posted on 08/09/2014 12:04:49 AM PDT by 867V309 (Don't tread on me, bro)
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To: Thane_Banquo

Excellent fix!


43 posted on 08/09/2014 12:15:40 AM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy

Do something about it, Reince!


44 posted on 08/09/2014 12:16:52 AM PDT by Impy (Think for yourself)
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To: Irish Eyes

They might want to add that all primaries will happen the same day.


45 posted on 08/09/2014 12:21:58 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Steelfish

We don’t even have open primaries in NY. What were other states thinking?


46 posted on 08/09/2014 12:53:28 AM PDT by MacMattico
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To: RebelTex

If you consider Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee to be blue states. They are all open primary states. Do they have double the RINO senators? Yes. Should they have any RINO senators? No. That they are RINO senators in the South tells you something about the effectiveness of open primaries. Made to order for RINOs.


47 posted on 08/09/2014 2:09:24 AM PDT by Waryone
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To: noprogs

Reince Priebus was hand picked by Haley Barbour. There is no way backstabbing Barbour will ever allow republicans to usurp his power in Mississippi even if he has to pay the entire democratic party in Mississippi to GOTV.


48 posted on 08/09/2014 2:13:30 AM PDT by Waryone
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To: Steelfish

The GOPe got caught with it’s hand in the cookie jar.....

What else are they going to say....?


49 posted on 08/09/2014 2:19:21 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Steelfish

The reason so many states went to open primaries is because the “independent” voter was locked out of the primaries since in many states closed primaries are for the party you belong to....


50 posted on 08/09/2014 2:26:13 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Popman

There’s no reason an “independent” should vote in a party’s primary. If they can’t even pick a party, why should they be able to pick it’s candidate?

Why should a party’s candidate be decided by voters who are either uncommitted, in the case of independents, or actually in opposition, in the case of Dems voting in GOP open primaries?

Open primaries are idiotic and have done nothing but provide room for fraud and manipulation and have given us endless numbers of bad candidates and worse office holders.


51 posted on 08/09/2014 3:26:52 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius

——There’s no reason an “independent” should vote in a party’s primary. If they can’t even pick a party, why should they be able to pick it’s candidate?——

Spot on....

Btw, my post was not an endorsement of open primaries just the moronic reasoning behind them....


52 posted on 08/09/2014 3:38:57 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kennard
“This sounds like a little conservative-pandering from Mr. “
That is exactly what it is . The RNC are afraid Conservatives will just stay home in the General Election.
53 posted on 08/09/2014 4:07:50 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: Steelfish

More GOPe hot air... Stop talking about it and do it!


54 posted on 08/09/2014 4:08:45 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$$$$ DEFUND OBAMA! $$$$$$$$$)
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To: Steelfish; paintriot; Lil Flower; Malichi; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; jdirt; ..

Close the gate after the mule gets out of barn Mississippi ping.


55 posted on 08/09/2014 4:40:06 AM PDT by WKB
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To: Kennard

exactly.

this scum is a K street plant .

The Grahnesty, thads , McShames , Christies , can not win in closed primaries .


56 posted on 08/09/2014 4:49:47 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: zerosix
states determine their own election rules and regulations.

Quite true. And you'll find among those regulations, those governing the use of public financing.

57 posted on 08/09/2014 5:27:11 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Program. Plan. Leader. Winner.)
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To: CitizenUSA
.....squishy moderates....

The Republican marketers have decided that controversy of any kind ... anything that a "Soccer Mom," or "Single Mom," might find in the least bit disturbing to her MSM-directed POV ... will cost them the Female Vote. Talk to a woman about it. If white female voters were reliably 51-3% non-Democrat, this would be an entirely different country.

A witches brew of minority voters, special interests, and women combine to make the Democrats the default political party of the United States. The Republicans feel that to win a major election, they must pander to these groups.

Of course, these groups, except the women on very rare occasions, never vote for Republicans,anyway.

58 posted on 08/09/2014 5:39:08 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Program. Plan. Leader. Winner.)
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To: Cboldt

It varies from state to state. In Mississippi, it is state law that prevents closing primaries - there is no registration by party affiliation.
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Same is true in Texas, and the Dems often cross over vote for a weak GOP candidate in the Primary in hopes that a Dem can win the General.

One big problem I noticed in the TN Primary was that Lamar A. had an easy win because there were about 5 or so opponents and some of those on the lower rungs took votes away from Carr. .....Races that run in a ‘fake’ candidate to take votes away from a likely winner to allow an incumbent to win are also rigged by the GOPe machine.


59 posted on 08/09/2014 6:25:18 AM PDT by octex
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To: matthew fuller; RightGeek; Waryone

Congratulations - all of you have done some research and are correct in your findings.

There is no excuse for red states to still have open primary systems (especially not Texas - IMO, that’s why we still have RINO Sen. Cornyn).

Again IMO, open primary systems and the calendar order of State’s Primaries are a big part of the reason our country is in so much trouble. For many years, the GOP Presidential candidate has already been declared by the time the Texas primary is held, which suppresses voter turnout for other races.


60 posted on 08/09/2014 6:32:34 AM PDT by RebelTex (Soli Deo Gloria, "To God alone the glory")
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