Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 23:04:50 GMT
Do you ever get the idea the "rules" each state and party has when it comes to the primary elections are a big fat mess?
California's primary is June 7 and I was half listening to the radio this morning and the guy was reminding folks when the deadlines were and what the Democrats had to do and what the Republicans had to do. It was different. Why?
And I hate when I have to agree with Trump. But how the Republicans allocate the delegates is just plain suspicious. If I remember correctly Rachel Maddow had said in one state the delegates had been awarded before anyone had voted in the primary. Forgot what state. It might be Indiana.
I don't understand why this primary season needs to be 4 months and why sooo many different "rules". No wonder some folks get confused. And voting shouldn't be this messy.
In my perfect world primary elections would be run as follows:
* All primary elections need to be done in a 60 day period. If New Hampshire wants to do the first election on 2/1 then the last primary election has to happen within 60 days of the first election on 2/1.
* All states and both parties following the same set of rules.
* Delegates are awarded after the individual state's primary election. They are awarded by %. If the winner of the election has 40% of the votes they would get 40% of the delegates and so on. At the convention the delegates must vote for whom they were assigned to after the primary election for the first ballot. Yes that would mean for Democrats the "super" delegates would go away.
* All primary elections are "closed" elections. After all it's the Democrats and Republicans who are picking their respective nominee for office and we are a two party country at this time. Independents like registered Democrats and Republicans can vote for whoever they chose at the general election. IMO the states with open primaries offers less of an oppurtunity to vote for "your" guy and more of an oppurtunity for some to vote for the worse guy on the other side so your guy will have a better chance of winning. I wonder how many of the Trump voters were actually Democrats in open primary states who decided to "stack the deck" for their Democratic guy.
I do have a question after my mini vent about primary elections. It's do you think the primary election rules or laws should be more uniformed and the primary voting season should be cut in half?
California's primary is June 7 and I was half listening to the radio this morning and the guy was reminding folks when the deadlines were and what the Democrats had to do and what the Republicans had to do. It was different. Why?
And I hate when I have to agree with Trump. But how the Republicans allocate the delegates is just plain suspicious. If I remember correctly Rachel Maddow had said in one state the delegates had been awarded before anyone had voted in the primary. Forgot what state. It might be Indiana.
I don't understand why this primary season needs to be 4 months and why sooo many different "rules". No wonder some folks get confused. And voting shouldn't be this messy.
In my perfect world primary elections would be run as follows:
* All primary elections need to be done in a 60 day period. If New Hampshire wants to do the first election on 2/1 then the last primary election has to happen within 60 days of the first election on 2/1.
* All states and both parties following the same set of rules.
* Delegates are awarded after the individual state's primary election. They are awarded by %. If the winner of the election has 40% of the votes they would get 40% of the delegates and so on. At the convention the delegates must vote for whom they were assigned to after the primary election for the first ballot. Yes that would mean for Democrats the "super" delegates would go away.
* All primary elections are "closed" elections. After all it's the Democrats and Republicans who are picking their respective nominee for office and we are a two party country at this time. Independents like registered Democrats and Republicans can vote for whoever they chose at the general election. IMO the states with open primaries offers less of an oppurtunity to vote for "your" guy and more of an oppurtunity for some to vote for the worse guy on the other side so your guy will have a better chance of winning. I wonder how many of the Trump voters were actually Democrats in open primary states who decided to "stack the deck" for their Democratic guy.
I do have a question after my mini vent about primary elections. It's do you think the primary election rules or laws should be more uniformed and the primary voting season should be cut in half?
