pulled votes from hoekstra and cox both.. repeat of the joe schwartz primary. too many conservatives running, combined with a large crossover led to the worst rino taking the bid.
MI needs to learn that fielding too many candidates is going to screw us every time.
The problem is how to dissuade candidates from running (especially since they could ask “why doesn’t the other conservative drop out instead?”). The best way to avoid having a liberal sneak into a nomination with divided conservative opposition is if you require a run-off when no one gets 50%+1 (or maybe when no one gets 40%+1, which is what NC does). That way Snyder would have had to face off against Hoekstra (who finished second), and Schwarz would have had to face off against whichever conservative finished second in 2004 (it may have been Walberg, but maybe not).