Republican Primary Structure Distorted McCain's Popularity

[New Ager]

Only the actual election for a political office needs to be "fair". Parties are free to select their candidates however they want.

That's ridiculous. Why does only the general election need to be fair? And never challenged a party's right to how they select their candidate. I challenged how they did it.

The Republicans have a preference for "winner take all" primaries because it decreases the chance that there will be a fight over the nominee at the national convention.

Not my only complaint. The distribution in non winner all states in all over the place too.

I have trouble classifying the USA as a democracy. IMHO, it is better described as being a two-party state.

Actually it's a democracy in a Republic.

And there are more than two parties. But, it's up to the parties to make themselves viable. Equality of opportunity exists, but not equality of outcome.

 

[JEROME DA GNOME]

And there are more than two parties. But, it's up to the parties to make themselves viable. Equality of opportunity exists, but not equality of outcome.

Not true. The system is set up to hamper any third party involvement with the process.

 

[drkitten]

Mainstream conservatives are not happy with McCain and those are the ones he will need to convince to vote for him.

And give Hillary the election by default?

Not hardly.

With the FPTP voting system in place in the United States, hardline conservatives will be faced with the choice of a centrist Republican (McCain) or a left-centrist Democrat. They can either vote for McCain or lose to the leftists. There are no other choices in the current US system.

 

[Brainster]

Florida isn't the whole country, so your comment proves nothing.

Unfortunately there were no other states where the exit pollsters asked that particular question.