In Michael Barone's thinking, are "candidates who can win" a euphemism for RINOs?
BTW, not all Republican primary voters are registered Republicans. Some states have no formal voter registration by party and others have "open" primaries.
We technically have open primaries in Michigan but you can only get a republican or democrat primary ballot.
Its fine when democrats have choices of their own to make but when they don’t they can go nuts with GOP ballots.
I did not say that and if you think that I did, you are mistaken. The Todd Aiken case illustrates my point. That race had at least three rock solid conservatives, any one of whom could have beaten Claire McCaskill. Claire finances Aiken's campaign figuring that she has the best shot of beating him, but not the others. He wins thanks to her ads and proceeds to put his foot in his mouth. He was done at that moment but refused to withdraw. Not smart on his part and suicidal on our part for those who continued to support him.
To exercise political power, you must first win it.
I read that many primary voters didn’t even like Romney as their first choice, but voted for him because they thought he could win.
How did that work out?
“In Michael Barone’s thinking, are “candidates who can win” a euphemism for RINOs?”
Of course, because Barone has always been one.
Barone was a little rich kid whose parents sent him to Cranbrook School. You can’t get much more establishment than that.
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