They’re all members of the Bi-Factional Bank Party.

The Arithmetic of Voting

In this system, a voter may cast a vote for any candidate on the ballot. If you vote for every candidate, your votes cancel each other out and it’s exactly the same as not voting.

With approval voting, you can vote for both the candidate you really want as well as the one you think has the best chance of winning. It completely eliminates the “throwing your vote away” objection to voting for a third party candidate.

I assume the primary system evolved in order to make the selection process more democratic. See my earlier comment about democracy. The results have been sadly predictable.

I’m totally opposed to open primaries, but you’re right in that they should be run by the parties, not the state.

However, if we must have primaries then it is clear that I should have the right to vote in ALL primaries that my state runs. One of the clown-candidates will win the election and run roughshod over me and mine, and I have the right to help decide who, in every party.

If I can vote in only one primary, then the state should not run them. The parties should run the primaries completely independently of the state and pay for them and staff them themselves.

Look around all over the world at the democracies…all have problems with people who get government money being able to vote just like the producers do. Is it any wonder that there’s a long term trend towards socialism?

I’d like a multiple vote system where a person can have more than one vote based on education, service in the military (or other service to the country), owning a business, etc.

Yeah, Texexec…dream on.

What was even worse this time was the interminable series of debates that were held before even the first primary. Nearly all the debates were moderated by MSM liberals. Conservative talk radio hosts are very popular. Why were there no debates moderated by Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, Bill Bennett, or Michael Medved? Any of them are certainly up to the task. The only conclusion I can reach is that the Republican leadership wanted it that way.

In my opinion, the debates undermined the primary system itself, and allowed the media and pollsters to choose the front-runner, as well as eliminate several candidates, before any voters got a chance to have their say. Again, the Republican Party doesn’t seem to have a problem with that.

It is not a stable form of government. The Founders were well aware of that, and went to great lengths to avoid it. Yet some 230 years later, our republic has indeed degenerated into a nearly pure democracy.

Voting must be an earned privilege, not a right. A society that gives the people riding in the cart equal say with the people pulling the cart is doomed, and there is simply no way around it.