if i were a big wig with the GOP or the Dems I'd be pushing hard to get rid of "open primaries" next go around. it makes zero sense to let republicans vote in democratic party primaries and vice versa. a lot of sanders and trump's biggest wins seem to be in the open primaries. danger of it is you could get stuck with a nominee that the majority of the party does not want and did not vote for ala trump (no offense to trump supporters but a ton of his primary voters appear to be independents and dems). i don't even understand why they opened up the primaries at all. youre just risking ceding control to voters who aren't in your party. seems idiotic.