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:''Not to be confused with [[panty raid]]ing.'' |
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'''Panty raiding''' describes a tactic in [[American politics]] where members of one party vote in another party's [[primary election]] in an effort to either nominate a weaker candidate or prolong divided support between two or more contenders for that party's nomination (especially for [[President of the United States of America|president]]).<ref name="Issacharoff">{{cite book|title=The Law of Democracy |last=Issacharoff |first=Samuel |year=2007 |publisher=Thompson West |isbn=1-58778-460-2 |pages=276}}</ref> |
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Party raiding can only occur in jurisdictions which allow [[open primary]] voting. As examples, [[Texas]] permits open primary voting (though a voter cannot vote in both primaries), while neighboring [[Oklahoma]] operates under a [[closed primary]] system (although a state party may open its primary to independent voters at the sole discretion of the party chairman). |
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A notable example of attempted party raiding was [[The Rush Limbaugh Show#Operation Chaos|Operation Chaos]] in the [[Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008|Democratic primary]] in 2008 when [[Rush Limbaugh]] encouraged [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] to vote for [[Hillary Clinton]] in an effort to weaken [[Barack Obama]] politically.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/rush-limbaugh.html | work=The Los Angeles Times | title=Top of the Ticket | date=April 29, 2008}}</ref> Another occurred in the 2012 Republican primaries, where many Democratic voters in Michigan voted for weaker GOP candidate [[Rick Santorum]] over front-runner [[Mitt Romney]] in order to disrupt his campaign. <ref>http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120228/NEWS15/120228049/Many-Democrats-voting-Santorum-Paul-deny-Romney-Michigan-win&odyssey=mod|breaking|text|FRONTPAGE</ref> |
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==References== |
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[[Category:Elections in the United States]] |
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