Republicans demands an open primary

[Anonymous]

I am a Republican and I am asking for an open Primary, i will go and vote on Tuesday for , GOV, LG, GA and school board members.

[Anonymous]

ship sailed.

[Anonymous]

and how. You didn’t realize this until now? The GOP is afraid of its voters.

[Anonymous]

Open primaries are how the GOP started to mess with dem candidates early on by stacking for their worst in a primary to take on a reasonable candidate on the GOP side.

No thanks.

[Anonymous]

If you are in MoCo, I implore you to register as a Democrat to vote in the primary. That and lobby hard for ranked-choice voting. While I'm liberal, I am more of a moderate liberal, and the ultra left doesn't pay any attention to more moderate stances on anything. Ranked-choice voting would require them to dig deeper in the constituency and listen to more diverse political opinions. It won't make the county conservative, but you might find some successes on some issues, particularly when it comes to business development.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Republican and I am asking for an open Primary, i will go and vote on Tuesday for , GOV, LG, GA and school board members.

Heh. NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Sorry, but you’ll need to quit your Republican identity and register as a Democrat to vote on the party’s candidates. If you don’t like “identity politics,” you should have no problem doing this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are in MoCo, I implore you to register as a Democrat to vote in the primary. That and lobby hard for ranked-choice voting. While I'm liberal, I am more of a moderate liberal, and the ultra left doesn't pay any attention to more moderate stances on anything. Ranked-choice voting would require them to dig deeper in the constituency and listen to more diverse political opinions. It won't make the county conservative, but you might find some successes on some issues, particularly when it comes to business development.

Ranked choice lets the far left vote for far left candidates. There will be less compromise.

[Anonymous]

Let’s go over this. You have to be a MEMBER of a party to vote about that party’s decisions.

Sign up and vote like the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Republican and I am asking for an open Primary, i will go and vote on Tuesday for , GOV, LG, GA and school board members.

Heh. NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Sorry, but you’ll need to quit your Republican identity and register as a Democrat to vote on the party’s candidates. If you don’t like “identity politics,” you should have no problem doing this.

PP is a Republican. Of COURSE they like identity politics.
Republicans invented identity politics…
White identity politics.

That was what Nixon ran on. White identity politics.
White identity politics was the Southern Strategy.
And it was Lee Atwater.
White identity politics was Reagan 1980 at Neshoba County.
White identity politics was Willie Horton.
White identity politics was GWB’s campaign smearing McCain for having a black child.
White identity politics is Fox. And was Limbaugh.

The whole modern GOP is built on white identity politics!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Republican and I am asking for an open Primary, i will go and vote on Tuesday for , GOV, LG, GA and school board members.

Heh. NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Sorry, but you’ll need to quit your Republican identity and register as a Democrat to vote on the party’s candidates. If you don’t like “identity politics,” you should have no problem doing this.

I don’t understand this. Virginia voters don’t register by party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are in MoCo, I implore you to register as a Democrat to vote in the primary. That and lobby hard for ranked-choice voting. While I'm liberal, I am more of a moderate liberal, and the ultra left doesn't pay any attention to more moderate stances on anything. Ranked-choice voting would require them to dig deeper in the constituency and listen to more diverse political opinions. It won't make the county conservative, but you might find some successes on some issues, particularly when it comes to business development.

Ranked choice lets the far left vote for far left candidates. There will be less compromise.

No. That's all that happens now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Republican and I am asking for an open Primary, i will go and vote on Tuesday for , GOV, LG, GA and school board members.

Heh. NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Sorry, but you’ll need to quit your Republican identity and register as a Democrat to vote on the party’s candidates. If you don’t like “identity politics,” you should have no problem doing this.

I don’t understand this. Virginia voters don’t register by party.

I think OP is in Maryland?

[Anonymous]

I'm not OP. I'm registered independent in MD, but I've been saying for years that we need open primaries. The current system has each party battling it out for the support of people on the end, driving both sides to the edges. This is why we don't have bipartisanship and why someone like Trump was able to get a foothold. I think the bulk of the country is somewhere in the middle, but we're left choosing between far right-wing and far left-wing candidates. Politicians are more focused on the partisan politics of the primaries than the actual election. If we'd had open primaries, perhaps Republicans wouldn't have been so terrified of being primaried out, and we might have had actual impeachment hearings versus the parodies we ended up with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Republican and I am asking for an open Primary, i will go and vote on Tuesday for , GOV, LG, GA and school board members.

Heh. NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Sorry, but you’ll need to quit your Republican identity and register as a Democrat to vote on the party’s candidates. If you don’t like “identity politics,” you should have no problem doing this.

I don’t understand this. Virginia voters don’t register by party.

I think OP is in Maryland?

I assume OP is in Virginia, where the Republicans squashed their primary and had a convention instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are in MoCo, I implore you to register as a Democrat to vote in the primary. That and lobby hard for ranked-choice voting. While I'm liberal, I am more of a moderate liberal, and the ultra left doesn't pay any attention to more moderate stances on anything. Ranked-choice voting would require them to dig deeper in the constituency and listen to more diverse political opinions. It won't make the county conservative, but you might find some successes on some issues, particularly when it comes to business development.

Ranked choice lets the far left vote for far left candidates. There will be less compromise.

Cite?

Because actual facts and studies show the opposite.