Let Everyone Vote in the Primaries.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/os-lk-my-wordchoice-edwards-20140303,0,1678746.story

The primaries are a major part of the election. Millions of dollars are spent wining, dining, and wooing people that could potentially help them get into the white house, or any other government position. If you don't do well in the primaries, you can't make it. Candidates often just reiterate their party platform in an effort to win over the party. The ideas and plans they spew in debates and interviews may not be anything even remotely close to their own ideas. In the primaries, all they need to do is win their party. This hardly seems fair.

The idea of this article is to have an "open primary" so that the candidates would have to appeal to everyone, not just democrats OR republicans. Then the top two from that primary, regardless of party, would be in the running for the presidency. In theory, it seems like there would still always be a democrat and a republican in the running, which negates any argument against the idea.

Whether we like it or not, America is stuck in a two-party system. Regardless of what party one may be registered within, the presidential candidates will always be a democrat and a republican. Therefore, everyone should get a say in who will be on the ballot. The decisions made in the primary are just as important, and affect just as many people, as the election in November.