Quote Originally Posted by Xiahou
If they want a say in a party's candidate- join the party.

If the party members want to choose an "extreme" candidate, what business is it of someone who isn't even a member to stop them?
Hence my teeth-grinding at taxpayer-funded party candidate selections. As a non-affiliated registered voter (like 65% of my fellow Californians), why am I paying 7 million dollars to hold elections to decide who the Dems, Reps, Greens, Peace & Freedoms, etc. pick for their candidate in November?

It's none of my business.

I don't care if they read tea-leaves, or analyze goat entrails, or toss dice, or vote democratically. Why am I paying for this process, thru taxes, in a state just inches away from bankruptcy?

Anyway, /rant. Just to really confuse HoreTore and our other non-US friends here, how about someone explain how Texas selects its delegates. Talk about a byzantine process.