we are talking about montana mississippi, tennessee, hawaii south carolina, a whole load of things.e talked about, you have right-wing elements of the republican party trying to get the primaries closed in certain states and make the case that you have to join the party to participate in the primary and democrats are doing that in some places. anyway, we are having this conversation, he is asking me questions and i am filling human. finally, he says, here is what i do not understand. what i don't understand about this, about this seeming aggressiveness and acceleration of aggression on the part of the parties against independents what i don't understand is, it seems to me that what has been happening, other than california and washington state, every time an open primary initiative is put on the ballot, whether it is a new york or in arizona in 2012, or in orgenegon twice wherever it goes on the ballot it loses. the independents and reformers get between 30-35% of the vote. and they lose. he says, given that, how come you are being so aggressive? they are winning at the ballot box.

we are talking about montana mississippi, tennessee, hawaii south carolina, a whole load of things.e talked about, you have right-wing elements of the republican party trying to get the primaries closed in certain states and make the case that you have to join the party to participate in the primary and democrats are doing that in some places. anyway, we are having this conversation, he is asking me questions and i am filling human. finally, he says, here is what i do not understand. what i don't understand about this, about this seeming aggressiveness and acceleration of aggression on the part of the parties against independents what i don't understand is, it seems to me that what has been happening, other than california and washington state, every time an open primary initiative is put on the ballot, whether it is a new york or in arizona in 2012, or in orgenegon twice wherever it goes on the ballot it loses. the independents and reformers get between 30-35% of the vote. and they lose. he says, given that, how come you are being so aggressive? they are winning at the ballot box.

that's have open primaries and we're talking here about montana mississippi tennessee, hawaii, alabama, south carolina a whole load of things. we talked about things basically you have some right wing elements republican party trying to get the primaries closed in certain case and make it the case that you have to join the party in order to participate in a primary. so we're having this conversation and he's asking me all these questions and i'm filling him in on the story. he said here ewhat i don't understand about this aggressiveness and acceleration of aggressiveness on the part of the parties against independence. what i don't understand is that it seems to me when's been happening other than california and washington state that every time an open primary initiative is put on the ballot whether here in new york or in arizona in 2012 or in oregon twice, it loses. so i said to him that is such a good question. because it really, really goes to the heart of the matter. it takes time to build a movement that can perform in certain ways at the ballot box. it takes time and development and takes histor

and we're talking about aunt hannah mississippi tennessee, hawaii, alabama, south carolina kind of aings. and we talked about things, you know basically of some right wing elements of the republican party try to get that primaries closed in certain states and a dedication to join the party in order to participate in the primary. democrats are doing that in some places. anyway, so we are having this conversation he's asking all these questions and then filling in in and find he says look you know, here's what i don't understand. what i don't understand about this about this seeming aggressiveness and acceleration of aggressiveness on the part of the parties against independents, what i don't understand is that it seems to me that what's been happening other than california and washington state that every time an open primary initiative is put on the ballot whether it was here in new york or in arizona in 2012 or in oregon twice, whatever goes on about what, it loses. the independents and the reformers get between 30-35% of the vote and it loses. so he says to me, well, you know given

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