[thetallguy24]

Every Republican Party in every state in the Union that has open/semi-open primaries needs to close them now, especially after seeing what happened in Mississippi.

[GeronL]

They tried to beat Ted Cruz but couldn’t, but I wonder what would happen when the next TEA Party candidate challenges the big dogs.

[deport]

There are 19 states with open primaries and a couple with some other form such as the
Jungle primary. You don’t select a party but rather register as a voter only.

[thinkthenpost]

Shouldn’t be able to as when you try to vote in a runoff the poll workers actually check to see which Party’s primary you voted in. Now as for those who did not vote in the primary, or voted in the other Party’s primary to,..... influence the outcome that certainly can happen.

[X-spurt]

After the backlash in Mississippi, this scenario will be much harder to pull off again.

It has not and likely will not happen here in Texas. why? Because Texans won’t put up with such BS. Shenanigans are tried where they are likely to succeed. The Barbour clan figured they were fast enough and smart enough to get away with it in Mississippi, but they didn’t count on McDaniel not just rolling over.

[Shugee]

IMHO, the problem with the Mississippi race rests less with the open primary concept and more toward the widespread illegal vote buying and cheating within the voting system. Does anyone really think blacks would have come out to vote for Cochran if there was no walking around money as an incentive, even with the scare tactics?

Also, how can a state not have a solid system for determining voter eligibility or allow safeguards to be loosened willynilly if not to cheat? I think this was the worst case scenario in the full out Chicago style political aggression of the national and state RINO elites and an indication of the lack of control and corruption in the state voting process to allow disqualified voters to vote. It is not simply that the Tea Party was outsmarted and outspent as some freepers think.

Texans have made some good choices and we are further along in wresting political control away from the elites than Mississippi. We have Voter ID and a very conscientious Secretary of State, Nandita Berry, wife of Michael Berry. We are working to clean out the rino GOP party leaders at all state and local levels.

[Defiant]

Maybe in conservative states and districts, we should run the conservative candidate in the Democrat primary, so we wouldn’t have to defeat the RINO machine and to get on the ballot.