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nitasmile


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I don't quite get this article, is this legal??
 
Basically the VA GOP wants people to vote to sign a pledge they will vote Republican in the actual presidential race. Somehow I thought there was only one "primary"-- is there a separate Republican and a Democratic Primary?? Yeah, I am bad and don't vote in the primaries.

To me, people should vote however they feel and shouldn't feel they are required to vote for one party or another. I could understand this being ok if the people were voting as a convention, similar to the national conventions. But this style doesn't seem right.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/28/AR2007112802448.html?nav=rss_metro

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The purpose of the primary is to allow each party to select their candidate.

That's why it sticks in the craw when Democrats vote in the Republicans primary in order to vote for their weakest candidate, or when Republicans vote in the Democratic primary in order to vote for their weakest candidate.

But there are different points of view on this, and so different states have different laws. Some people think that anyone should be able to tell members of a party that they have no investment in which candidates they can nominate. Some people think that only the members of a party should have a say about who the nominee of their party should be.

This effort in Virginia doesn't seem to be going over so well.

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I think that you should only be able to vote in a primary for candidates of your own party. And I feel that way even knowing that that means that, as a registered member of the Constitution Party, I cannot vote for Ron Paul in the Republican primary.

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I agree with you, Arbilad.

There are states where this is the rule, but they get around it my changing their party membership for one day to vote in the primary, and then back again the next day.

Arlen Specter specifically asked Democrats to do this when his seat was endangered by Pat Toomey. Might be the reason he's still in the Senate.

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