[squidly]

Those dang Hispanics shouldn’t be allowed to vote, I tell ya.

[rmlew]

Ping

[NonValueAdded]

I heard that the "semi-open" quality of the Florida primary consisted in the fact that voters could change their registration at the time they voted, meaning that an independent who wanted to vote for McCain could register as a Republican on primary day and vote as a Republican.

That is an absolutely incorrect statement and if there is any evidence such changes occurred, it should be reported to the authorities ASAP.

[Mogollon]

First liberalism, then liberal fascism/socialism including disarmament of the sheeple, then communism.

[NonValueAdded]

This makes no sense. We know that 17 percent of the voters in the GOP primary identified themselves as Independents.

Here's how that can make sense in a closed-primary state such as Florida. Those self-identifying "independents" registered as Republicans 30 days or more ahead of the primary. For that matter, Democrats could change their party affiliation to Republican as well, as long as it was done 30 or more days ahead. Now they can either go back to being registered RATS or drop their party affiliation.

I believe that was part of the strategy once it was clear that Florida's RAT delegates wouldn't be seated to cross over to select the weakest republican. That had to be done back in December and when Hillary suddenly wanted to put the state in play, it was too late to switch back to get a RAT ballot and vote for Obama or the Silky Pony.

[RedRepublic]

“McCain won because of the votes of non-Republicans and Hispanics”

That’s how the Wall Street Journal put out this morning.
I just hope that other states will prevent libs and so called “independents” to come vote in GOP race.

I can’t stand McCain’s claim that he’s real conservative.

[burzum]

This story is idiotic. Even the smallest amount of research would allow the writers to know that the Hispanics in Florida are mostly Cubans not Mexicans. All this open borders crap is irrelevant. Here is what is relevant: what has Romney said about how he wants to handle Cuba? McCain has been concrete and has vocally pushed for prosecution against Raul Castro for the 1996 shootdown of the Hermanos al Rescate planes which resonates very strongly with Cuban exiles. Romney just gives generalities. McCain has been supporting Cuban exiles in Congress for years. Romney just discovered them this year when he had to run for election in Florida and then decided to group them into a comprehensive Latin American Policy Group (basically equating their legitimate struggles against communism with those of illegal Mexicans in the country).

Conservative Hispanics in Florida voted for McCain because the Romney campaign completely ignored them. Romney could have won them if he would have paid attention. He didn’t and lost.

[jbp1]

17% of 21% of 2million GOP votes = 70,000. mcain won by more.......

so

[paltz]

http://www.srqelections.com/downloads/webappform.pdf

According to the FLA application residents have to be registered 29 days in advanced and show photo ID

[paltz]

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[malia]

any illegals included...

[pallis]

In part, the Cuban voters in Florida are an anomaly that makes the ratio of Hispanic Democrat voters to Hispanic Republican voters seem less monolithic than it is nation wide. That will change as Florida’s Mexican and Central American population grows. It is a win,win situation for Democrats. Republicans will have to do more than embrace amnesty and open borders to shift the tide. They will have to champion Hispanics as the favored minority, and redistribute more of Americas wealth towards Hispanic causes and people. The silly dream that some Republicans seem to have is that Democrats will have the black minority and Republicans will have Hispanics. The growing Hispanic population will always favor liberal politicians, and the Republican Party will have to reflect that if it wants to get and hold more then 30 percent of Hispanic voters. That said, maybe McCain is the future of the Republican Party, but it is a sorry future for conservatives.

[Paleo Conservative]

What is the applicable law in Florida about party registration? Are voters allowed to change their registraton on election day?

In Texas all primaries are open, but once you vote in a party primary, you can't vote in another party's runoff. Your voter registration card stamped with the name of the party in whose primary you voted. If you vote in a party primary, you can't then sign a petition for an independent to gain ballot access. Also if you are running as a candidate in one party, you aren't allowed to vote in another party's primary. There have actually been Republican candidates who voted in the DemocRAT primary, because there were more races at stake, and the winners of the DemocRAT primary were pretty much guaranteed to win the general election in November.

My parents and lots of other conservative Republicans used to regularly vote in the DemocRAT primary in order to have a say about who gets elected. In 1970, they voted in the DemocRAT primary to vote for Lloyd Bentsen against the incumbent DemocRAT senior Senator Ralph Yarborough. Bentsen did win the 1970 primary, but this backfired since his Republican opponent was George H. W. Bush whom he beat in the general election. Now that Republicans control every statewide office in Texas (thanks to the 1998 Republican sweep when George W. Bush won reelection as Governor with 68% of the vote), there are more people voting in the Republican primary. I personally have never voted in a DemocRAT primary. My theory is that the more that conservatives vote in the Republican primary, the more like the national Democrat party the Texas Democrat primary voters become. They then proceed to vote for candidates who look like national DemocRATS who are fairly easy to beet in the general election.

[Califreak]

But I thought it was the conservative base that was rallying to his side?

I’m so confused....

Is the maverick beloved by one and all?

[paltz]

bump!