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resisted in Virginia for many years for a number of reasons. Now it seems likely that the right wing of the GOP will attempt to enact legislation to require such legislation for participation in nominating candidates.
I can recall times in the past when independents and Republicans voted in primaries for the Democratic candidate they felt would be easiest to defeat in November.
And on the face of it, it would seem that people who are Democrats should nominate Democratic candidates and people who call themselves Republicans should nominate Republican candidates. Open primaries in which anyone, regardless of party affiliation, if any, can participate seems a bit unfair since someone who votes for a particular candidate in a primary is under no obligation to vote for that same candidate in the fall election.
And yet taken as a whole, Virginians are pretty middle of the road about their politics. They have consistently rejected for the most part candidates far from the center, although the Virginia House of Delegates is now consider
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