Posted: 12/15/2007 9:11:17 AM EDT
| Can someone who put "independent" on their voter reg. vote in the R or D primaries? |
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You have to select the GOP or dem primary to vote in, and the parties will be told you voted in their race. The odd part is that your vote does not really count a whole bunch as it stands now. In the dem race you in theory are voting for pledging delegates to the national convention, but all delegates have been stripped because Michigan has too many black voters to allow top 6 state voting. Same with GOP, only half the delegate voters have been stripped there because the GOP is only half as anti-black as the dems. If I was a betting man I would bet the federal courts will restore the delegates because it is so freaking plain why they don't want Michigan going in the top six votes. |
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I hadn't considered the racial make up of this state as one of the reasons for stripping the delegates. The biggest reason I figured, was that the Klinton machine didn't want it but couldn't figure out why. Our primary has been messed up for way too many years. Too many democrats cross over & muck up the republican side. |
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If you remember back to the late 80s/early 90s when the dem party went to quota delegate assignments they came up with mandatory black delegates, but then off set them almost exactly with mandatory women delegates and super delegates who come from the party leadership. This is because while the state delegates don't really vote for the pres anymore, they do vote for some powerful state level candidates---and most important of all they select the national committeemen who run the party. The GOP started to do the same delegate quotas as the dems, but then backed off and only required that one of the two committeemen from each state has to be a woman. Both the dems and GOP also started a quota system for black officers to the conventions (state and national) but they didn't work out well (odd, unquailifed people with desire for a title but not the ability to get a regular spot don't do well in office)... so they invented new vice chair positions for the quota holders to sit where they could have a reception with cocktails but not have any real function to screw up. So, anyways, the national convention doesn't do a whole bunch anymore since the two contenders are chosen well prior to the event. For that reason, Michigan going to the early vote was a great deal. We get some small say in who the pres will be, in return for our delegates maybe not being seated for a pro forma convention vote for that same guy. Next time around the wannabes will come here and start making pledges for free stuff for our state like they do in Iowa and NH. They would this time as well, only the dems figure with all our black voters OHB is going to win for sure, and for some reason the GOP thinks we will vote for Mitt the pro-abort anti-gun guy cause daddy was gov back in days of old long ago before the family fled the state and took their business with them. |