Should Democratic Party remove Independent/Republican votes to determine nominee?
Since this is the selection process to determine the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, why are Independents and Republican votes allowed to sway the outcome. If these voters feel so strongly to have a voice in this party’s nomination, then they should have registered as Democrats.
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Haha yes, they should. I love this idea.
Let the Independents vote, but not the Republicans. Why let the other party potentially select your candidate??
That’s not the case in every state, or even exclusive to the democratic party. The Republicans have some open primaries as well.
They should set the registration date back to the first primary state, that way switching can’t occur.
Oh yeah, force those who want to be independents to choose one of the 2 traditional parties. Don’t allow anyone to cross party lines. Why not just have a dictatorship.
Yes.
Independants are screwing up both races this year.
If they want to select a Republican or Democrat candidate, they should be registered Republican or Democrats first.
The Party no longer represents its own values, and that really sucks.
Yes. This allows cross overs to vote for a weaker candidate that they want to beat…..ie Obama.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/12/barack_hussein.html
even though you’re obviously in the hillary camp, i sort of agree with you on this. it’s fairly obvious that some (if not all) of the conservative “support” for obama will likely vanish come november. they’re either voting against hillary or because they think there is simply no way that a black man can win the presidency. i don’t know if they’re correct on that last one, but i’d wager that’s why they’re doing it.
No
I would bet the process works the other way around in your state as well..
If the democrats keep messing with the primary… and allow Florida and Michigan to count for Hillary….
they will effectively split the party and throw another election!
Man! ….Its like watching a train wreck! LOL
good idea
It is up to each state to determine whether they have open, closed, or semi-closed primaries. If voters do not like their system, they need to petition to their state to change things before the elections. There are pros and cons to each system.
If a state has open primaries, then all of the votes should count, regardless of who cast them. Our vote is theoretically anonymous, there can be no way to know for certain who voted for whom.
I think some states require party registration to vote in the primary, and maybe that does make sense. But it’s not foolproof, because people can simply change their party registration to cast a “crossover” vote, and next year change it back. There’s no way to prove that you’re *really* a Democrat.
Good point. There are a lot of Republicans out there that are voting on the Democrat ticket because the Republican nominee is already locked up. Most are voting for Obama though. My guess it that it is an anti-Hilary vote more than direct support for Obama.
You just give the best solution to political manipulation by another party. Only the candidate whose principles are wayward or crass (not class), or someone running under the Dem Party yet praises Republican agenda will agree to this.
This cross-party voting is not advisable and against Party principles.
The difference between caucuses and primaries is that the principle of a caucus is that you are with political party organizers and want to be seen and move around in a room if need be. During a primary (closed ones are for those registered by state officials of the political parties) you vote in a booth with a secret ballot. Here in Michigan the two parties came to the same Precinct Polling Places on Jan. 15 and the Republicans nationally took notice of our outcome while the Democrats had already “thrown out” the results – - only Hillary and Kucinich were listed on the ballot anyway. There is no way to sort out the Primary results and to sanitize them since in the November balloting we will be back to secret ballot process – - there’s where the state results will be determined as far as the new President for 2009-12.