Tag: Open Primaries

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Bookworm Beat 11/1/19: Student Loans, Emotional Women, Rapacious nature, Whistleblowers, and Photoshopping

As Bookworm Beat echoing Podcast 30, that covers emotional women, student loans, rapacious nature, Whistleblowers, NeverTrumpers, and Trump. Before I begin, a heads up: I’ll be traveling this weekend to visit the Revolutionary War Field Day in Camden, South Carolina, so blogging will be light, if not nonexistent. I’m sure,

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Travis Allen

#TravisAllenWriteIn — California voters should write in Travis Allen for Senator *UPDATED*

With Dems revealing their unfiltered totalitarianism, and no Republicans on the California senate ballot, write in Travis Allen’s name for U.S. Senate. UPDATE: I’ve learned, to my dismay, that California disallows write-ins during the main election. Please go here for a different strategy in California. When Democrats successfully turned California

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Donald Trump Election 2017

Bookworm Beat 12/21/16 — the “election that never ends” edition

Yes, the Electoral College has spoken on the election, but the Progressives’ weeping, wailing, beating of breasts, and rending of garments continues unabated. That’s why you’ll find these articles pertinent, interesting, amusing and, sometimes, frightening. Don’t attack people from whom you want something. Hillary wanted votes from Americans but she

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Open primaries were meant to combat hardcore candidates, but will they do the opposite?

I’ve been open about my contempt for open primaries since they first appeared in California: Once the votes are counted, the two candidates who got the most votes go on to the November ballot.  Everyone else vanishes from the scene.  In states that have a heavy party majority in one direction

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The Hobson’s choice in Marin County elections; or, choosing between Left and Lefter

The theory behind Open Primaries is that it will encourage moderation in districts that are extremely Democrat or extremely Republican.  Without Open Primaries, minority opposition votes are symbolic throwaway votes.  Whoever is the majority candidate wins, regardless of the details of that candidate’s platform.  With Open Primaries, which inevitably result

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