To Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, you invite Democrat "outsiders" to vote in "Republican" primaries. Aren't Mississippi Republicans important enough to have their own primary?

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Mississippi's 6/3/14 "Republican" primary also invited "outsider" Democrats. The Cochran campaign aggressively sought democrat "crossover" votes. If Gov. Bryant was so concerned about Mississippi Republican voter integrity he'd at least let them have their own primary:

6/3/14, "Thad Cochran, the Last of the Naive Republicans," The Atlantic, Molly Ball

"Cochran proceeded to Meridian's central square, where Mississippi's aggressively folksy, jeans-wearing governor, Phil Bryant, whipped up the crowd in front of a peeling dark-wood gazebo. Bryant's eyes narrowed as he inveighed against the outsiders who, he says, look down on Mississippians and want to tell them what to do and how to vote."...

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Citation re: Mississippi open primaries:

3/7/14, "Mississippi Senate, Congressional races could reignite open versus closed primary debate," Yall Politics, Frank Corder 

"Mississippi has open primaries, meaning voters of any affiliation can vote in the primary of any party without declaring or registering with either.

The main concern with open primaries has long been "crossover" voting, Democrats voting in a Republican primary (or vice versa) to influence the nominee in hopes of putting their candidate or party in a better position heading into the general election...

Some Mississippians feel a closed primary system would help prevent such political antics. Closed primaries only allow voters who are registered with a party to vote in that party's primary.

According to fairvote.org, 18 states have a version of closed primaries and in another 5 states Republicans have closed their primaries while Democrats continue to operate open primaries.

The notion of closed primaries is not new in Mississippi."...
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3 citations for Mississippi "Republican" Cochran soliciting Democrat votes to give him 6 more years in the US Senate: 
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5/31/14, "Cochran ad seeks Democratic votes for a Republican primary," Jackson Jambalaya

"Desperate or smart? That 'tis the question as an ad in the Mississippi Link asked "democrats to cross over and vote in the republican primary to ensure our community's interest is heard." Republicans asking Democrats to vote in a Republican primary? Interesting."...

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5/31/14, "Sen Wicker (MS) and County Republican Leader Appeal for Democrat Votes in Senate Primary?" Derek E. Hopper, RedState.com

"It’s up to us to do our part in getting 

normally democratic voters out to our primary." 

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5/31/14, "Santorum Campaigns for McDaniel as Pro-Cochran Group Turns to Democrat Voters for Help," Breitbart, Matthew Boyle
 
"Henry Barbour, the nephew of former Gov. Haley Barbour and head of pro-Cochran Super PAC Mississippi Conservatives, tweeted in response to conservative criticism that Cochran would turn to Democrats for help: “do you have an issue with black people voting in R primary?”"

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