If I average my decades of voting, I vote an evenish split between the two parties, with some independents tossed in. I don't think I have ever voted D for president, either R or I. I match the skills/issues to the scope of the position. If I like no one, I write in.
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Open primaries allow for that sort of mischief, besides the other problems.
Those shenanigans occur in both open and closed primaries. The trade-off is that independents are left off in the closed primary. Maybe the parties should adopt the @MaineGreens stance of unenrolled voters being able to cast a vote?
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It would seem to me if the major parties wanted to court unenrolled voters, it would be a good carrot to build goodwill. Plus, if it moved parties to more moderate nominations, parties would likely see more enrollments.
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This is a really valid point and why I am not enrolled. I am not far enough left or right to survive a primary in one of the parties and I don't *want* to move farther left or right. I want the responsibility to be to constituents and good law, not party ideology.
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That's empirically false.
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We are not afraid of independents voting in our primary!
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I think it would be a little awkward to write myself in against Henry
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