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by MockObject 2673 days ago
> and remember, the party gets to approve whether a candidate receives a primary challenge in most state races

This makes sense. Primaries are internal party business. It's totally up to them to decide how they select their candidates.

The general elections are where the citizens get their say.
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chimeracoder 2673 days ago
> This makes sense. Primaries are internal party business. It's totally up to them to decide how they select their candidates.

New York is the only state which conducts primaries this way.

> The general elections are where the citizens get their say.

No, because general elections are uncontested (due to gentleman's agreements between the two parties not to run candidates in each others' districts, and laws making it infeasible for third parties to do anything but cross-endorse the major parties).

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dragonwriter 2673 days ago
> New York is the only state which conducts primaries this way.

That argumentum ad populum does not invalidate the offered justification.

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chimeracoder 2673 days ago
> That argumentum ad populum does not invalidate the offered justification.

That "offered justification" doesn't refute the original point, which is that exists solely as away to have an elite minority subvert or disregard the will of the people.

The irony in pejoratively using the term argumentum ad populum in a thread that is literally about popular vote is not lost on me.

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