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[moriah]

19. Closed primaries prevent Rethugligan ratfucking.

After McCain secured the Republican nomination, in open primaries Hillary did better than she had before.

I knew when I registered Green in New York for the year I lived there (2002-2003) I would be excluded from the Democratic Primary. But NY had a thriving Green Party at the local level, unlike Arkansas where I was born, raised, and now live. I wanted to participate there more, and felt for 2004 my vote was assuredly "anybody but Bush".

I still believe firmly that ranked choice voting is the real Revolution -- it will end the "lesser of two evils" voting strategy in the GE, it would send a message to whichever Party won if a significant number of their voters only put them second....

And personally, I believe the Republican electorate is far more fractured than the Democratic, with far more people voting strategically despite disagreeing with Rethugs on social issues. Evangelicals are in the minority and their primary attempts to run Evangelicals fail. Yet, even "true Conservatives" will have a hard time believing Trump is more than just a famous guy invading their party. Evangelicals are going to see that if he has faith, he certainly only recently got it. If McCain wasn't Conservative enough, the Hair isn't either. Yet most people in this country are far more socially liberal than they were in the 80, or the 2000s. If RCV fractures any party, it will be the GOP.