the average person. Strength in numbers.

Hey, your average republican votes against their own best interests EXCEPT remember that their racism and hatred of poor people is what their party is appealing to. So in a sense, they get their just desserts. It's just too bad that good Dems like us get screwed, too...

Each party should get to pick the person that represents them. What's the point of having a party if, when it comes time to pick the people to represent you, anyone can vote?

If the system is supposed to be intended to give the people the "best" choices to vote for, any system that encourages (or even make it easy for) people to push the worst candidate forward is not a good system.

I think in general, it's a bad thing.

As a voter, you would like to think your vote matters. If you live in a State where the other party dominates at every level, what is the point of voting for people who never win? You can select your primary nominee, then get the nominee through the runoff, and then in the general election watch every opposition candidate win, and you end up completely disenfranchised -- you have no elected representation other than someone else's choices.

Even in the opposition party, there are degrees of separation. In the primary and runoffs, your vote can matter. You can affect the outcome. The general -- back to your party -- but you did have something to say in who your elected representatives will be, and who your party candidates ran against.

republican. I can understand that. The idea of becoming a registered republican, even toward a good end, kinda makes me feel sick...

It is like letting the NY Yankees select the Red Sox draft picks.

Rs always win my local elections. I am sick of not having any say in which R it's going to be.

I like them.

I especially like what happened to Cantor.