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2016 Postmortem

HereSince1628

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6. Who knew that a closed primary with a deadline for changing affiliation 6 months ahead

Reply to WhaTHellsgoingonhere (Original post)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 07:20 AM

Apr 2016

of an election, or stripping democratic affiliations from voter registrations would suppress independent participation?

Those rules aren't an accidents of nature.

This election cycle has been very informative about the democratic party and its methods.

I suspect that information will yield an even bigger Independent Fail in Nov.

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Upshot from last night: Independent FAIL [View all] WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2016 OP

Indi's were not allowed to vote but they will be in the GE, Hillary had a trout farm victory azurnoir Apr 2016 #1

Gawd forbid that Democrats select the Democratic nominee. NT Adrahil Apr 2016 #2

seems Hillary's fans might fear open voter participation - interesting that azurnoir Apr 2016 #3

Yep, very true Duckhunter935 Apr 2016 #8

Well, here's the thing..... Adrahil Apr 2016 #20

Funny how it works. People tell you over and over what the problem is: you're WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2016 #19

Yeah, I keep hearing people say that shit..... Adrahil Apr 2016 #22

What a FOS statement. Occupy and now Democracy Spring are engaging people the Democratic Party is WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2016 #23

Oh yes, very podunk. But we did have an occupy group here. Adrahil Apr 2016 #25

You've more clearly identified the problem than I, apparently. WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2016 #5

I did in my state where Bernie won quite handily but then again we have a tradition azurnoir Apr 2016 #12

of course they were allowed to vote - all they had to do was make the effort to make sure they DrDan Apr 2016 #9

6 months ago registration closed last October azurnoir Apr 2016 #10

seems the Hillary supporters understood it - over 1M votes DrDan Apr 2016 #13

under the circumstances of NY laws Hillary's win is like catching a lunker at a trout farm azurnoir Apr 2016 #16

Wow, 1 million votes from NY! Lol WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2016 #17

No LoverOfLiberty Apr 2016 #28

Bernie is the reason I became a state delegate this year. GoldenThunder Apr 2016 #4

You're smarter than many, many people. Registering Independent has grown in popularity WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2016 #11

The only way to get the Demacratic Party back to the people is... GoldenThunder Apr 2016 #18

People don't know that. They think they can change it from the outside because they don't understand WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2016 #21

Are you by any chance enrolled in COLGATE4 Apr 2016 #29

Who knew that a closed primary with a deadline for changing affiliation 6 months ahead HereSince1628 Apr 2016 #6

Yeah, we did learn a lot about the sausage making. If you live in an open primary state, you just WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2016 #14

You need independents Duckhunter935 Apr 2016 #7

In hindsight, I think they'd rather vote for Bernie in the primary than Hillary in the GE WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2016 #15

You're not the only independents though. IamMab Apr 2016 #27

Time to make a clean break ThePhilosopher04 Apr 2016 #24

Exactly. There's ZERO logic behind "I won't vote for them to teach them a lesson." IamMab Apr 2016 #26

A closed primary only strengthens the establishment. HooptieWagon Apr 2016 #30