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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Maher: GOP thinks “voting should be legal but discouraged, like interracial dating”
Bill Maher: GOP thinks voting should be legal but discouraged, like interracial datingby Sarah Grey at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/05/bill_maher_gop_thinks_voting_should_be_legal_but_discouraged_like_interracial_dating/
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In Fridays Real Time blog post, Bill Maher discusses election primaries, and a recent Chuck Schumer New York Times op-ed. Schumer called for open primaries or top two primaries, folks can vote for whomever regardless of party, and you might end up with GOP versus GOP, Democrat versus Democrat, or neither party at all. (California, approved open primaries in 2010, and introduced this system during the 2012 election.)
In the blog, which reads like a half-baked monologue, Maher writes:
Another friend of the show, Chuck Schumer thats right, I know people wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about how the primary system is all screwed up. He says it gets gamed by extremists and rich dopes. And he says the rest of the country should do what California does, and go to a top two open primary where you dont have to be in the party to vote, and you might not end up with a Republican and a Democrat on the ballot. He says that means well get more moderate candidates, as opposed to the system now, where the kooks on both sides elect the Nutcracker to fight the Mouse King.
Maher isnt sure if he agrees with Senator Schumer or not. Top two, open primaries could mean more moderates are elected, who compromise, and allow government to function, he muses. However, it would make politics a heck of a lot more boring. (For Maher, the argument seems to boil down to comedy peppered with a serious political argument.)
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Bill Maher: GOP thinks “voting should be legal but discouraged, like interracial dating” (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2014
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Now I know what an open primary is. Posted for others in case they are not sure
applegrove
Sep 2014
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applegrove
(118,691 posts)1. Now I know what an open primary is. Posted for others in case they are not sure
exactly what it means and how it will affect politics.
4b5f940728b232b034e4
(120 posts)2. Wow, I can't believe that actually admitted that!
You know they think it.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)3. The GOP is against voting rights
The GOP want to suppress the vote because that is the only way that the GOP can win
alarimer
(16,245 posts)4. I don't think open primaries as described here are the way to go.
If they're backed by Schumer, I don't like them. He is a man of no principles whatsoever. Certainly not a liberal.
No, I think the DNC not backing GOP-lite would be a start.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)5. CA has only had that system in place for 2 years.
'Everyone should do what CA does' is a tad strong considering CA has only done it once so far....
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)6. Sounds exactly right.