http://civitasreview.com/politicians/exlcuding-unaffiliateds-a-bad-idea/ North Carolina's Conservative Voice Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:42:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://civitasreview.com/politicians/exlcuding-unaffiliateds-a-bad-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-1848 Why the NC GOP Should Close the Primary to Unaffiliated Voters « Truth or Dare Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:46:40 +0000 http://civitasreview.com/?p=3914#comment-1848 [...] are the key to winning and that barring them from the primaries will not win their confidence.  Civitas seems to agree.  This blogger completely disagrees with their [...] [...] are the key to winning and that barring them from the primaries will not win their confidence.  Civitas seems to agree.  This blogger completely disagrees with their [...]

]]> http://civitasreview.com/politicians/exlcuding-unaffiliateds-a-bad-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-1847 Lisa Marley Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:10:07 +0000 http://civitasreview.com/?p=3914#comment-1847 I disagree with your conclusions. You assume that excluding Unaffiliated voters from our primary will drive them into the Democrat's arms. Many voters where I live, Dare County, are Unaffiliated because the Democrats run the County. The Unaffiliateds want to be able to vote for local officials in the Democrat primary. That is why you don't see them voting in droves in the Republican primary. Secondly, I would like to see the polling on your fourth point. How many Rs have changed to U? Do they live in counties dominated by Democrats? And even if there are a good number of disaffected Rs among the Us, and I do know a few, those individuals are not going to vote Democrat. Changing their registration to Unaffiliated is their way of flipping the bird to the GOP. If they knew that changing to Unaffiliated meant that they could not vote in the Republican primary and if they did not live in a Democrat dominated town, they would still be registered as Republican. I disagree with your conclusions. You assume that excluding Unaffiliated voters from our primary will drive them into the Democrat’s arms. Many voters where I live, Dare County, are Unaffiliated because the Democrats run the County. The Unaffiliateds want to be able to vote for local officials in the Democrat primary. That is why you don’t see them voting in droves in the Republican primary. Secondly, I would like to see the polling on your fourth point. How many Rs have changed to U? Do they live in counties dominated by Democrats? And even if there are a good number of disaffected Rs among the Us, and I do know a few, those individuals are not going to vote Democrat. Changing their registration to Unaffiliated is their way of flipping the bird to the GOP. If they knew that changing to Unaffiliated meant that they could not vote in the Republican primary and if they did not live in a Democrat dominated town, they would still be registered as Republican.

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