changing your political party
Slaughterhouse five
11-05-2006, 04:32
there were elections here not too long ago and i saw a report that mentioned and interviewed people who changed their party just to be able to vote in the primary of another political party.
what are your thoughts on this? :confused:
AB Again
11-05-2006, 04:40
If they want to go to all that effort and expense to be involved in the pre-selection of candidates, then let them.
Protagenast
11-05-2006, 04:41
If its a heart felt change, or out of an honest belief that you are effecting change, I can understand. If it is just to hamstring political parties you don’t like you suck.
If its a heart felt change, or out of an honest belief that you are effecting change, I can understand. If it is just to hamstring political parties you don’t like you suck.
Must say I agree here. Primaries aren't usually THAT close where those few people switching will make a difference, but its always one strategy. Kind of inflates certain candidates though, may backfire on them...
Facts change. So should ideas.
Facts change. So should ideas.
which is fine and dandy, but to change sides just to sabotage the other party mocks the system.
I tend to belong to as many parties as I can at the same time. That way I get a vote in all the candidate selections.
I've never understood why Americans only allow people to belong to one at a time. If I were there, I'd belong to the one I dislike. I think I could do it more harm by voting for someone who sucks than I could benefit my party by voting for someone good.
which is fine and dandy, but to change sides just to sabotage the other party mocks the system.
If that works, then the system is broken.
I vote for three different parties, and which one I vote for depends on which levels of government - municipal, county, national - I am selecting them for. I recently decided to swap one of them out come September.
We don't have "primaries."
If that works, then the system is broken.
How can you determine why a person changes party?
Drunk commies deleted
11-05-2006, 23:49
Imagine if everybody changed sides just so they could sabotage the other party by choosing the worst possible candidate to run. The last US presidential election could have been between Dennis Kucinich and George W Bush!
which is fine and dandy, but to change sides just to sabotage the other party mocks the system.
Indeed it does.