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Originally Posted by DateDoc
It would lead to the opposition party voting for the worst candidate so they would lose in the next election. You have dem1 and dem2. Dem1 is voted for by dems. Dem2 gets a few dem votes + repub votes. Dem2 wins and no one is happy other than repub's who now have someone to bitch about.
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I think there could be a lot of scenarios depending on how many candidates there are. Ignore parties for a minute. If there are 6 left leaning candidates and only 2 right leaning then it's possible that the 2 right leaning get most of the votes since the 6 on the left split theirs up.
Another scenario is there are many center candidates (lets say 8), one extreme right and one extreme left. Under normally circumstances the two extreme candidates might not be electable but if the 8 center candidates fight for the same votes the two extremes could be the ones moving on.
In this system the party that brings the fewest candidates to the primaries benefits.