I am the Arizona state chair of a political party called American Third Position.
Today, I got a booklet in the mail from the Arizona Secretary of State. The title of the booklet is “What’s on my Ballot?” It is a guide to Arizona’s general election.
There will be nine propositions on the ballot in the upcoming election. Eight of them are proposed amendments to the Arizona State Constitution. The remaining one is a voter initiative.
The hottest item by far is Proposition 121. Proposition 121 is about an open primary election for the State of Arizona. There are pages and pages of arguments both for and against this proposition. Two people arguing against it are Governor Jan Brewer and Russell Pearce.
Governor Brewer points out that, in an open primary, a candidate does not have to list his party affiliation on the ballot. This will leave the door wide open for deceptive campaigning.
When I was in high school, we discussed the merits of closed primaries versus open primaries. One disadvantage of a closed primary is that it allows party raiding. The Democrats can vote for the weakest Republican candidate so that their own candidate will have less competition. I have always had my doubts of Sen. John McCain. If I didn’t know better, I would swear that he was a product of party raiding.
Ralph Brandt
Mesa
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Bluepoet posted at 11:49 am on Mon, Sep 24, 2012.
The open primary, however open to "party raiding", is still the most cost effective, practical approach to elections. The whole election cycle is too long, too polarized, and it offends me, as a taxpayer, to fund a two-party system, that does not represent anyone but the neo-royalty, behind the scenes illuminati...
Oh, and I'm the chairman of a political party called "Bokonists For Liberty".
Our platform consists of a motto..."Protect Freedom-Lock Your Mind"
sockratties posted at 9:45 am on Sun, Sep 23, 2012.
As an independent I will vote for either the best of the candidates available or the least distasteful if that’s all that’s left after the primaries. Unfortunately party primaries and caucuses across the U.S. seldom leave much to choose from. By the time AZ gets to vote the pickings are pretty slim. Those with lots of values and little money seldom make it this far.
Open primaries might make dark horse and independent candidates more visible. Political parties would be less able to cull those who might not play by the Demo-Republican rules of obedience. Right now we only have one party with two sects, the Donkeys and the Elephants, which take turns doing exactly the same thing; fleecing the sheep.
I would have liked to see more of Jon Huntsman. He didn’t get enough of a following because he didn’t get the media nod and didn’t bring media ratings up enough with his realistic, issues based comments. No interesting sound bites there to sell soft drinks and autos! Pop-Politics is another part of “Reality TV.” It trivializes this most important element of our political system.
It is shameful that both Romney and Obama have had to appear on talk-shows and act like movie stars to get before the TV audience. When the candidates are giving speeches media talking heads interrupt to tell us what they are saying as if we wouldn’t understand. Politics is purposely being “dumbed down” for consumer ingestion. Perhaps open primaries can help bring candidates back to the people.
Bingo6 posted at 7:18 am on Sun, Sep 23, 2012.
As soon as I saw Jan Brewer and Russell were against it, then I was for it.
As. for John McCain, he was an inside the beltway carpetbagger when he first ran in Arizona and he still is.
venonacables posted at 7:27 pm on Sat, Sep 22, 2012.
I wish to correct an error. I meant to say "One disadvantage of an open primary is that it allows party raiding."
Ralph Brandt