Posted on 06/08/2014 12:24:15 PM PDT by Syncro
Which means that if a registered Democrat did not show up for the primary election because Childers had a big lead, that registered Democrat can now vote in the Republican runoff. That is the cohort Cochran and McConnell are currently soliciting.
I sure hope so, but a debate does not appear likely. The GOPe would rather win with money than principle.
Which means that if a registered Democrat
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MS is just like TX you don’t register by party. You choose which primary you want to vote
in when you go to the polls. If you voted in the primary you can’t cross over for the runoff.
But yes they are looking for any voter that didn’t vote in the democrat primary.
A distinction without a difference.
A distinction without a difference.
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Yep, so be it, thems the rules.
I don’t have a problem with open primaries. However, I have a BIG problem with taking the people who didn’t show up to vote in the primary or general election and allowing them to vote in a runoff. That’s not how we do it in Georgia. Here, they get a list of everyone who voted in the general (or each primary) and use those as the eligible lists for the runoff.
>> if a registered Democrat did not show up <<
Mississippi does not particularly like “registration” of any kind. It does not have registration by political party. It does not have registration for guns. You don’t even have to carry a “registration” card in your car or truck!
I do. It allows an opposition party with a settled candidate to help pick their opponent.
So...those democrats too lazy to vote in the democrat primary will suddenly get a burst of energy and slog their way to the voting booth to vote for Cochran?
Bwahaha...I did need a good laugh for the day!
In reality the democrats prefer McDaniel in the general instead of Cochran. So this meme is so convoluted.
Money talks.
In reality the democrats prefer McDaniel in the general instead of Cochran.
So they say. You fell for it.
Any one who did not vote as a Democrat can vote in run off. Only if U voted in Dem in primary U can’t votes in GOP run off.
All of the talk about how great chris is…….is not that good he in Ms. St. Congress now and does not show to vote. So he is not what all of U think he is. Nothing but trail lawyer. I’m not a Thad person either but That will be gone and Chris will be here for 40 years. All of U remember how Rubio done after elected well this what I than Chris is another Rubio. I did not trust him for State senate and do not trust him now. He is a slick Rubio to me.
What I know is that he is preferable to Thad Cochran and getting rid of him will help dislodge the GOPe. That's enough for me.
He is a slick Rubio to me.
Could be. We'll see. If he's bad, we'll do the same to him as we're doing to Cochran. In the mean time, we KNOW that Thad is bad.
Don’t matter if they R Dem or GOP if they voted Dem primary is only ones who can not vote in this GOP primary. If they did not vote 1st. time around they can vote no matter what party then R in. So UR wrong.
U got right…..
How many times Cochran has won in MS? 4 decades? But you must know more than every political columnist and pundit out there.
I am not supporting Cochran over McDaniel. Simply stating what I read in right leaning media.
How does GA keep a registered voter who didn’t vote in a given primary from voting in the runoff? Doesn’t seem kosher in a state with open primaries. Say, for example, I vote at every election, and in every GOP primary. I get sick and miss a primary that ends in a runoff. I can’t vote in the runoff?
As I understand it, in MS registered voters who didn’t vote in the Democrat primary are eligible to vote in the runoff?
We have a Dem primary here this coming Tuesday and I would be so tempted to vote in it since whoever wins the D primary WILL be our next Congressthing. Problem is a) none of them is worth voting for even as a default, and b) I don’t want to get on the Democrats call/mail list.
Correct. When you show up to vote in an election, they mark your name off against the voter rolls. If there is a runoff, they use those checked-off names as the new voter roll. In a primary election, they do it for each party depending on which ballot a voter requests, R, D, or L. There usually isn't an L ballot in a primary, but every so often there will be one.
I’m not quite as confident about a McDaniel win now as I was the day after the Primary. I’m afraid Cochran and Barbour will get a ton of Black DemocRATS to the polls to vote for Cochran in the GOP Run-off, and that will be enough to put Cochran in the “Won” column.
Somebody tell me how we can stop, or at least slow down, this underhanded maneuver by the Cochran Campaign.
...and I’m also confused...
...and I’m also confused...
Go read this statement from the SOS. Last paragraph deals with the runoff election.
http://www.sos.ms.gov/news_press_release.aspx?id=584
The bottom line is if you are a registered voter and did not vote in the democratic primary
then you are elgible to vote in the GOP runoff.
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