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Originally Posted by Pballer
First I am registered as an independent. Second, it's a sham when almost half the population is disenfranchised when they have no voice in an election unless they agree to join a political party they have no interest in joining. If the only candidates running were Republicans except for the bs write-in candidate whose name will not even be printed on the general election ballot, they should have skipped the Republican primary and just have had all the Republican candidates run in the general election.
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Then the democrats should have chosen some candidates and held a primary. They "disenfranchised" themselves. Why? Because they knew to a certainty that any democrat would be defeated in November. And that's EXACTLY what representative democracy entails. THE PEOPLE vote for the candidate that best expresses their views. If 80% of the population identifies with a particular party, that party's candidate wins.