The Alabama crossover vote goober-picking party is over

[yallerdawg]

Source: al.com, by J.D. Crowe

The crossover goober-picking party is over.

Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill on Monday to ban crossover voting in Alabama primaries. 

Messing with the GOP election is pretty much the only entertainment Democrats have had in recent years. In some cases, Democrats haven't even fielded a candidate to waste a vote on. Republican goober-picking is all they've had. 

Democrats have had a party rule prohibiting Republicans from crossing over and voting in their runoffs for decades.

Some blame the crossover vote {yallerdawg pleads guilty! } for Alabama's biggest gubernatorial goober of all - Dr. Robert Bentley - at least his first term. The second term - the Luv Guv term - is all on his home team.

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/05/new_primary_rule_vote_for_the.html

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[WellDarn]

1. I hate to mention it

But this goes the other way with even worse results.

Not too long ago, in the Alabama border state of Tennessee, Deplorables took advantage of Democratic Party apathy in the face of a seemingly unbeatable GOP U.S. Senate incumbent to run a confirmed Teapot in the Democratic Primary. After he won, the state party was faced with the unenviable and humiliating task with disavowing everything the Democratic candidate stood for.

It was just sad.

[yallerdawg]

2. What you're talking about is a completely different issue.

The Alabama Democratic Party - and the DNC! - need to establish Democratic Party credentials before certifying candidates on the ballot!

Anyone running already holding office should be a (D), no (R)'s and (I)'s - newbies should have to adopt a majority of the state and national platform and be approved by the party leadership.

On the other hand, very often Democrats in the South find it very difficult to distinguish any differences between the real Democrat and the Republican candidate particularly on statewide ballots!

Sometimes you just take what you can get - at the very least it adds to the numbers!

51 Democratic US senators is a world of difference better than 50!

[WellDarn]

3. Absolutely!