The truly amazing thing- Liberals/Democrats whined like live pigs on a spit when Hellary lost the election.They called it illegitimate because she won the popular vote, but somehow they are ok employing a similar system to pick a nominee. Why don’t democrats move to a popular vote to select their candidate? Because the DNC can’t let the hordes of unwashed have a voice in the process. They are the most hypocritical people on earth.
Actually almost all the states that have run primaries --- I think the sole exception is Maine --- let any voter vote in the primaries. I did it. Most primaries are "open". You don't need no steenking party affiliation.
Now the RNC on the other hand has been
cancelling primaries altogether. They have more challengers at this point than the Democrats have, but the people won't get to vote at all in Kansas, South Carolina, Hawaii, couple of others. Same open primaries but you can't vote if they cancel the election. Aren't cancelled elections wonderful? Member when we cancelled the election in a place called Vietnam, because if we let it happen Ho would have won?
You mixing issues here, but I’m not sure why.
I agree that there is absolutely no need to be affiliated with a party. I haven’t been a Republican for over a decade, and as a unaffiliated voter I voted for Bernie in the primary. Only because I think he would be an easier opponent for Trump.
With regard to the Republicans cancellation of primaries- You’re being petty and absurd. None of the other Republican candidates are viable. In fact, I looked at the list on the ballot in my state and only recognized one name. The map below shows the 2012 Democrats primary results. Guess what, nearly a third of the states either didn’t bother holding primaries or failed to report the results. Please direct me to your post whining about democrats not holding primaries then. And yes, there were plenty of other candidates. In fact a guy in prison got 40% of the vote in West Virginia. Now stop with the nonsense.
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BULLSHIT.
Rump's challengers in the Republican primaries ---- where they still exist --- are at the least Bill Weld, Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford, ALL of whom are nationally prominent Republicans. Fatter o' mact I posted a thread
featuring a debate with those three a while back. The debate the RNC doesn't want us to see.
In contrast, the last time an incumbent was running for re-election, the choices on the Democratic ballot, if you wanted one, were "Barack O'bama" and "Uncommitted". Of course the same ballot had Senators, Congresscritters, local offices etc so that would be the only reason to vote there, but reason enough --- this bullshit about "well we're gonna nominate Rump anyway so why bother" also takes those other offices out, so that argument is disingenuous.
Tell me more about this "nonsense" nonsense.
The original point above was that the quoted poster (oh wait that was you) implied that "Democrats are choosing" this or that, and that's just bullshit. That's why I pointed out that open primaries are just that -- open to
anybody, not just Democrats YOU YOURSELF just got done saying you used it that way. So go get some mustard, because I just twisted you into a pretzel.