They should anyway. Open primaries are stupid. If the point of a primary is to pick the candidate to represent a political party in the next election, then the candidate should be picked by the ACTIVE MEMBERS of the party in a CLOSED PARTY-MEMBERS-ONLY process — not by a bunch of random schmucks who just happened to feel like putting down their beers, turning off their TVs, and leaving their trailer parks to go vote on election day.
Absolutely. In 2004, I voted in the democrat presidential primary ... for Al Sharpton. Now, I honestly believed that he best represented the democrat party platform and governing philosophy. So in one sense, I was using the primary system correctly.
But, as a life-long and registered at the time REPUBLICAN, I should not have been allowed to do that.