Comments on: Constitution and Green Parties Have Candidates for Mississippi Legislature This Year http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/03/03/constitution-and-green-parties-have-candidates-for-mississippi-legislature-this-year/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:53:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mississippi Constitution Party http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/03/03/constitution-and-green-parties-have-candidates-for-mississippi-legislature-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-52035 Mississippi Constitution Party Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:27:24 +0000 http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/03/03/constitution-and-green-parties-have-candidates-for-mississippi-legislature-this-year/#comment-52035 The Mississippi Constitution Party has 11 canidates running in the November 6, 2007 Election. For more information: www.MississippiCP.com The Mississippi Constitution Party has 11 canidates running in the November 6, 2007 Election.
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]]> By: Steve Rankin http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/03/03/constitution-and-green-parties-have-candidates-for-mississippi-legislature-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-50210 Steve Rankin Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:04:46 +0000 http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/03/03/constitution-and-green-parties-have-candidates-for-mississippi-legislature-this-year/#comment-50210 None of Mississippi's six minor parties have ever had a contested primary. (The Natural Law Party is listed among the six.) These small parties do well to field one candidate for an office. Mississippi's first contested Republican primary for a statewide office came in 1978, when U. S. Rep. Thad Cochran defeated state Sen. Charles Pickering for the U. S. Senate nomination. Our first such GOP primary for state offices came in 1979, when there were two Republican candidates each for governor and attorney general. One of the AG candidates put up big billboards simply encouraging people to vote in the open Republican primary. That 1979 GOP gubernatorial primary was hotly contested. We elect our county officials at the same time as our state officials, and all of the contests for county offices were in the Democratic primary. Thousands of people went to the polls thinking that they would be able to vote in that hot Republican gubernatorial primary and also vote for their county officials. There were many mad, disappointed voters that day. Part of the residue of the one-party system... None of Mississippi’s six minor parties have ever had a contested primary. (The Natural Law Party is listed among the six.) These small parties do well to field one candidate for an office.

Mississippi’s first contested Republican primary for a statewide office came in 1978, when U. S. Rep. Thad Cochran defeated state Sen. Charles Pickering for the U. S. Senate nomination. Our first such GOP primary for state offices came in 1979, when there were two Republican candidates each for governor and attorney general. One of the AG candidates put up big billboards simply encouraging people to vote in the open Republican primary.

That 1979 GOP gubernatorial primary was hotly contested. We elect our county officials at the same time as our state officials, and all of the contests for county offices were in the Democratic primary. Thousands of people went to the polls thinking that they would be able to vote in that hot Republican gubernatorial primary and also vote for their county officials. There were many mad, disappointed voters that day.

Part of the residue of the one-party system…

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