Voting - Caucuses & Primaries

@chaski Said

To answer my own question, as an independent in Florida I don't get to vote in Florida primaries, but if I could I would vote for the person I thought would make the best president.

But, as a Florida voter it wouldn't make much difference since we (as a state) typically don't really know who we elect as president anyway...

@shinobinoz Said

I was speaking to the disenfranchisement of size of the states. Since it is the electoral college & not the popular vote that selects the prez. The argument was always that this way the smallest states have as much of a chance to be the one to push the candidate over the threshold to win. I've never seen the logic in that, but that is one of the reasons supposedly for keeping the electoral college. I think it is high time to get rid of it myself.

@DiscordTiger Said

Yeah but that was like walking into a cat convention and start talking about ferret toys.

@shinobinoz Said

Perhaps, I was responding to you stating your state is late in June & the decision is generally over by then. The whole electoral college makes about as much sense to me as to any logical reason behind it. The popular vote would be the decider not the delegates who have already cast their lot in a year in advance.

@DiscordTiger Said

Two separate elections. Cats and ferrets.

@shinobinoz Said

We can declare affiliation & vote party for the primary but then have to go back downtown to change back to independent for the general. Are you able to do that?

@chaski Said

In the Caucuses & Primaries

Will you vote for a Candidate because you believe he/she is the one that is the best?

Or

Will you vote for a Candidate because you believe he/she is the one that can beat the other political party's candidate?

@twilitezone911 Said

i noticed that two members that said were their independent " voters. i thought " ok! " . it 's their choice.

i am democrat, but there are times, i would vote for republican in small local elections not big races. if i believe in the person, not the party.

my first election to vote in 1977, i voted jimmy carter in high school. those days, i don't remember why i voted for carter. i didn't even studied either candidates back then. i was excited that i vote for the first time in my life.

i don't really understand when the member who is " independent " voter. so you aren't connect any party that had choose from.

first of all, that is fine with me. i guess change my status or can i? why the government or local government need to know. what are group, we believe in.

i understand that you want to hide who choose are nobody business except yours.

last twenty years, independent voters, can leaned to republican or democrat. so these independent voters has choice their side not with the same party. even if independence voters believe in " tea party " that this party lean more to republicans.

i like said no big deal that these two members are independence voters. but why are we need to be label democrat, republican, or independence voters, when are register to vote? when our vote is a secret ballot?

who really need to know what we are label? does the parties need to know? does the electrical vote need to know?

what is the bid deal, what we label as? we came out to vote, is that the biggest deal on electron day?

@DiscordTiger Said

Yeah but I was calling my state a bunch of lazy slackers for not getting their shot together for Super Tuesday. Which elects in a primary

Which is totally a different election/process than the electoral college. Which for the most part I understand the logic behind and why the popular only vote is disenfranchising to most of the country.

Two separate elections. Cats and ferrets.

@shinobinoz Said

I don't see where the popular vote is disenfranchising as much as the electoral college.

@DiscordTiger Said

So I really don't see if your trying to derail the thread or just don't understand the differences in what I'm talking about in primaries and the college.

Either way, I'd rather not discuss the electoral college further in a primary thread. As it annoys people when things go too far off tangent, and I should lead by example. I can hash it out in a electoral college thread in the future, but for now my bed is calling and my cat is meowing.

So we can just accept we have different opinions on the existence of cats and ferrets for now.