Reply #3: it was not a good change for louisiana

[amazona]

Prior to changing to this system, the state was firmly Democratic, as you had to be a registered Democrat to vote in the Democratic primaries where the real decisions were made. There was sort of a two-pronged attack made on this once-progressive state -- try to put all the Democrats in jail or at least get them tied up in court and also get these open primaries so the right-wing anti-abortion GOP extremists could get on the ticket. To see a state that once voted for the Longs vote in a David Duke supporter like Mike Foster...well...it really makes you wonder if the two party system has any value at all. In the interest of "fairness," we seem to have cut our own throats.




perhaps your third party system would do better but that isn't the situation here