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Warhammer wrote:

Turquoise wrote:

Warhammer wrote:

Huh, Stevens was one of the known corruption anyway. Personally There are liberal Republicans as well not to mention.

John McCain is one whom I was surprised of getting elected. He is the least liked Republican. Unfortunately, a moderate does well against strong conservative men running against him in a presidential bid during open primary states. (Thanks Huckabee for screwing up Mitt's chance by the way.)

Well, the reason why McCain won the nomination so quickly is because the GOP's primary system is equally as flawed as the general electoral one is.

The winner-takes-all approach for winning state votes heavily skews things in favor of winners by plurality.  McCain likely only got about 30 to 40% of his party's support outright but still managed to win because of this system.

If you guys had a more evenly representative system (more like the Democratic one), Romney or Huckabee would've likely won.

Granted, the Democratic one has the problem of superdelegates.  They shouldn't be part of the process at all.

Good point, though I kind of hate open primaries as well. In election you can crossover from your side and disrupt other sides choice of candidates, plus you get the flip flopping independents in the mix. Closed primaries or partial closed primaries seems the best way to go.

Warhammer wrote:

Yes, I am sure there are reasons that some switch, but some I am referring to are the ones who get swayed for the moment-stimulation on how a candidate speaks and his persona versus his real firm bases. Too late on the political cult forewarning there are only 2 to pick from that make a major difference, I bet our forefathers really wanted a two party system (sarcasm).

Turquoise wrote:

Warhammer wrote:

Yes, I am sure there are reasons that some switch, but some I am referring to are the ones who get swayed for the moment-stimulation on how a candidate speaks and his persona versus his real firm bases. Too late on the political cult forewarning there are only 2 to pick from that make a major difference, I bet our forefathers really wanted a two party system (sarcasm).

Well, moderation is usually a good thing.

I'll put it this way. Of the major Republican candidates, McCain would've been the one I would've picked, because his social views were generally more moderate than that of the others.  He seemed more like a true advocate of smaller government than most of his competition.

Granted, Ron Paul was better than McCain, but he was too radical to stand a chance in the general election.

Kmarion wrote:

Well, I will say the electoral collage is pretty damn screwed up now too.