Posted on 02/04/2008 11:43:32 PM PST by Moral Hazard
About 34 percent of voters in California are registered Republicans, and are the only voters allowed to cast ballots in the Republican presidential race on Tuesday.
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Political consultant Hal Dash said the decision to exclude independent voters could play to the Democratic Party’s advantage by allowing Democrats to argue that the GOP doesn’t want them.”Why would you want to shut the door at the beginning when you have the opportunity to be able and welcome some numbers? If I was the California Republican Party, I’d want anybody I could get given their shrinking numbers,” he said.
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Leave it to a consultant from a Democratic political firm to whine that Independents can’t choose the Republican nominee.
Them’s eggxactly right, chaos_5!
McCain would have lost every race so far under California’s rules. He wouldn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination if these rules applied in every state.
Florida is a closed primary state.
In times past, Democrats picked their candidate; Republicans, theirs. Independents had no say whatsoever. Shouldn’t it be that way everywhere?
Well that’s the way I see it. One thing about California that I don’t like is that McCain will be able to take delegates in the counties/districts that he wins. That will soften the impact of a loss here, and I suppose could actually allow him to win more delegates, although I am not sure on that count.
One can surely bet 200K-500K, non-illegal, non-documented, non-citizen, non-living, non-human (pets) will vote in for the GOP CFR, UNAS, NWO sponsored McLame in Kalifornika today.
Yes, as a former Californian, when you go in to vote in a primary, you ask for one of the following ballots: Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Peace and Freedom, American Independent or Independent/non-Party. Who knows, maybe the Green Party is a recognized party today too. So, you vote in your own party’s primary to nominate candidates for the General Election. You also vote in all the non-partisan elections, say for judges and you vote on all the Propositions and bond issues. (Those usually go quickly, No usually on everything).
This info goes back to 1990, but I don’t think it’s changed in California. It’s a ‘closed Primary’, in that you can only vote in one party’s primary election. Well, you go to the polling place, you request a Party’s primary ballot. I don’t believe you have to be registered in that party to request it. Your party registration is recorded on the list, but I don’t believe you are held to that, when you request a ballot. In 1990, there were 5 qualified political parties and a non-partisan ballot. See my above post for more details.
Well, they apparently let independents “declare” as Republicans on the spot, so that’s not really closed.
Fox News isn’t worth watching or reading.
Tell you what. I’ll be heading into the polling booth around 2:00 p.m. my time. I’ll ask to see if I could obtain another ballot, a democrat one. I believe it is closed, you have to vote in your own party. I’ve never tried to ask for an alternative ballot. I’ll check it out.
I don’t believe you can.
Florida was closed in name only. Exit polling showed 17% of voters were Independents and 3% were Democrats. This is explained by the fact the Democrat primary was meaningless, so many Independents and some Democrats registered as Republicans with the specific intent of voting for McCain.
Romney won the self-identified Republican vote in Florida. Read the exit polling results.
The powers that be in the Republican party screwed everything up royally by making some states winner take all, and others not. There are no winner take all states on the Democrat side. It should be consistently one way or the other,
I am a firm believer in winner take all.
As a rule, so am I, but it makes more sense to do it the way the Democrats are than the crap way the Republicans are stacking the deck to favor certain candidates.
I want a situation that doesn’t allow candidates to ignore certain groups. Anotherwords, don’t go to large cities only and ignore the farm communities. That’s why I prefer winner take all.
I don’t care what the democrats do, but I’m not saying that to tweak you. Their selection process doesn’t interest me.
I just want to make sure conservatives can be nominated from our own party, by our own party members.
If it needs to happen, there will be a media blackout of it.
“The powers that be in the Republican party screwed everything up royally by making some states winner take all, and others not. There are no winner take all states on the Democrat side. It should be consistently one way or the other,”
Could you explain who has the perfect way to do this? Then tell me how you plan to force this to be done, over the objection of your so called “”powers that be in the Republican party?”
At present, states can do what they decide locally to do. That is consistent with federalism, which is a Republican premise. Remember Fred Thompson?
I’m in California, and I like the idea that if my congressional district votes for A candidate, that establishes the casting of that delegate.
There is no reason for Republicans to have to run their primaries like the democrats.
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