This is party politics. The Democrats do it and so do the Republicans.

One way to avoid cross-party voting in primaries is the caucus system. I guarantee that few members of the opposing parties would make the effort to show their faces there.

I guess another way is to have closed primaries, and making it more difficult to change party affiliation.

And the final way is to get rid of primaries altogether, and let the public vote for their favorite in the general election. Of course this could be very expensive for the candidates unless we have public funding of presidential elections, which I am all in favor of.

Posted at March 12, 2008 10:23 AM in response to Republicans ARE causing mischief in Democratic primaries