Time: Romney dropping out helps Obama b/c McCain's DeFacto Nomination = Independents to Obama

[TeamJordan23]

With Romney out, Obama has chance to gain big advantage with independent voters in remaining contests.

Open primaries include Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas, Indiana.

http://thepage.time.com/2008/02/07/mccain%e2%80%99s-de-facto-nominationindies-to-obama/

[Donnachaidh]

1. counting chickens

:rofl:

[Wombatzu]

2. Texas: opened or closed?

"Officially, Texas has closed primaries. But in practice, any registered voter may vote in the primary of any single party, as long as they have not voted in the primary of another party. Texas's primaries are closed in a less direct way: once a registered voter has in effect declared his or her party affiliation by voting for the nominees in a party's primary, that person cannot participate in the proceedings (for instance, a runoff primary or convention) of another party."

http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/html/vce/0201.html

so if you vote in a primary for one party, you cannot participate in the other party's primary for that particular season or until you re-register or what?


this could be interesting.

[goldcanyonaz]

3. Same as Ohio.

[TeamJordan23]

4. Texas has a hybrid system. Like part of it is a cuacus and part primary voting. nm

[Wombatzu]

5. right, but what i'm wondering is...

if someone has participated in the Republican Primary in Texas in the past, can they participate in the Democratic one this season?