I won't vote in primaries. Rush tried his Operation: Chaos crap by telling conservatives to register as Democrats and vote Obama, since Hillary was a more viable opponent.
Cute little screw job...
Obligatory North Dakota brag post.
We don't have to register to vote, let alone provide any sort of registration by party.
Booya!
Oh, I never fail to vote in the primaries. If you're active in local politics, you know that this is where you try to stop the rascals--right here in town. Let them make it to the district or state level, and a few of the more slippery ones will inevitably slither to D.C.
I think your responsibility as a good citizen is to keep as many rascals, whatever the color of the stripe up their backs, out of office. Sometimes, the primaries do just that.
I believe the requirement to vote in a primary is to have registered with that political party should be eliminated. Not all states require it. Texas doesn't. Florida does. As examples.
The open primary could also be viewed as bad for voter participation. Statistics show that voter participation in the United States was higher when people could only vote in the primary for their own party. In Hawaii, primary voter turnout fell from 74.6% in 1978 to 42.2% in 2006 after changing to open primaries.[4] The closed primary system had more of an incentive for people to join one of the major parties. This led to people being more involved in the voting process. With the open primary, some argue, more voters become independent and are less likely to participate in the nominating or election processes
That MAY be a good thing, how are primaries handled?
Obligatory North Dakota brag post.
We don't have to register to vote, let alone provide any sort of registration by party.
Booya!
It's because you live in North Dakota and they know that anyone wishing to fraudulently vote in North Dakota would have to actually visit North Dakota. So they figure they have nothing to worry about.
The sad reality is politicians these days don't have a rudder, they literally go with the numbers they think are the most accurate. Sure, some have pet issues in either party that they are willing to shelve until they think the numbers are favorable, but you have to have coalitions these days which is a sorry state for us to be in. The only reason I was a Republican was that they were less of what I despised, but now they are voting just as poorly as the Democrats so I had to find something closer to my own beliefs in the Libertarians, I am not 100% in line with them, but they are closer than other parties to my own beliefs.Why people register with political parties is beyond me.
I doubt I will ever register with a political party or ever give one penny to ANY political organization/election campaign.
IMO, 90+% of all politicians are corrupt and/or incompetent...why on Earth would I ant to support them in ANY way?
I'm a Green and proud of it. We are environmentalists, anti-Corporate, believe in Human Rights, support Gay Rights, support Equal Rights, and we like to think we knwo what the real World could be like if we could get power to the people. The Big Energy/Banking/Military monopoly is the perceived enemy, not some foreign Nation demonized to create war metaphors.
I'm a Green and proud of it. We are environmentalists, anti-Corporate, believe in Human Rights, support Gay Rights, support Equal Rights, and we like to think we knwo what the real World could be like if we could get power to the people. The Big Energy/Banking/Military monopoly is the perceived enemy, not some foreign Nation demonized to create war metaphors.
Explain how being "Green" has anything to do with Gay Rights? The benefit to the environment is?
What party are you registered to?
What party are you registered to? Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, or other?
I have been a proud card-carrying member of the Libertarian Party since 2010. :mrgreen:
Explain how being "Green" has anything to do with Gay Rights? The benefit to the environment is?