By contrast, only 24 percent of Democrats believe the primaries are having a negative effect on their party.
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“Can we turn around and use the anger and the dismay and the dissatisfaction and the sense of being ripped off that so many people have now and say, “Listen, it doesn’t have to be this way”?” said Dan Carlin, host of the “Common Sense” podcast. Bernie Sanders of Vermont will be leading the Democratic presidential nomination contest by certain metrics yet lose at the convention to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. This is not democratic at all, yet we accept it because we’re used to it, but we’ve also bought into the idea that limiting voting to a small set of early states helps ensure that candidates of all levels of financial resources can afford to get their message out to the people, and fairly compete with candidates with much larger resources.
It’s clear some leaders of the Democratic Party would love to see Trump become the Republican nominee “because he alienates voters”. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. The candidates with the most votes surge into dominant positions by late spring and the conventions are tedious ratifications of the will of the electorate. Considering many millennials are voting for the first time, many must be finding it incredibly hard and frustrating to have found out they aren’t allowed to vote because of something as inconsequential as your party registration. But the mainstream media have a responsibility to let people know all this, for the objective of assessing the significance of a given primary outcome.
Yet even if neither of these party-splintering events occur, we’ve all received a bracing reminder: Primary contests may resemble conventional public elections in almost every way – down to the polling places and the neighbors serving as judges – but they are, in fact, private functions.
Martinez: You must register to vote with the party of your choice by May 23. Instead, the Kasich camp is hoping to win the nomination at a brokered Republican convention in June, basing his optimism on polls that show him doing better against the Democrats than his rivals, if on little else.
This is especially important to point out considering Clinton won over 70 percent of the voters over the age of 65. On April 26, the same fate will befall independent voters in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Before that last day, the registrars of voters office in town hall is open from 8:30 to 4:30 both Thursday, April 21, and Friday, April 22. The deadline for registering by mail or online has passed.
Absentee ballots are available from Wilton Town Clerk.
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The rest joined a third party or became unaffiliated. For more details you can visit the Connecticut Secretary of the State’s website. “These voters have just abandoned parties because they are ashamed by how the parties act”.
