I think I'm gonna write in Edwards.

I would like open primaries so that as an Independent, I can vote for whomever I choose.

Maybe it was the whole Clinton Health Care thing - but I find it laughable when Presidential candidates get into details when the fact is the brightest ideas in the world will never make it through congress.

That's what the general is for. The primaries are for the members of political parties to chose who best represents their platform as a party to run in the general election. Someone not registered as a Republican, quite frankly, has no business participating in the Republican primary.

You mean like McCain. :p

OH MY GOD, I agree with scaeagles on something politcal. Someone shoot me!

Yes, if McCain is now a Democrat which is what I was, unclearly, talking about. But yeah, 2000 wasn't the best example since that year both parties had heir designates (Bush and Gore). Though on the Dem side none of the three people (Gore, Bradley, Wellstone) who even tried made an attempt this time around (Wellstone, being dead, was an extreme longshot).

But even from 2004. John Edwards was the only one of the several Democrats who made serious bids for the nomination that was able to justify another attempt in 2008. Wesley Clark, Howard Dean, Dick Gephardt, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman

Bang.

I actually don't care either way, but, wouldn't the Repubs and Dems want to have a better idea where the swing votes would go? I always thought that somehow identifying where the Independent vote went within the primary (without breaching anonymity) would be pretty informative on who stood the best change of grabbing the swing votes, and knowing what issues were important to them...

Thinking of turning the gun on myself, actually.