Reply #27: Primaries are for the party members to decide who the party's nominee will be

[housewolf]

While it _nice_ for Dem-leaning independents and Repub-leaning independents to add their input (nice for them, the independents), I think it's wrong.

Independents get to choose amongst the nominees all those parties who put up a nominee, and that's as it should be. But if they want to particiapte in who a party selects as their nominee, they should be registered as a member of the party. And I think there should be a deadline for registering, something like 2 or 3 weeks.

I think this business of cross-party voting for nominees is wrong, in my opinion, and distorts the process.