Almalieque wrote:
If that's the terminology, then yes. It's legit, which is why I label it dirty. It's just as dirty within the same party where your candidate is too weak to win (3rd or 4th in the polls), so you vote for the person in 2nd place (assuming that the individual in 1st is the real threat). It's legit, but it doesn't represent what the people want.
Well, it does in so far as what people want is "not Eric Cantor". Likewise, I really don't see an issue with voting in your own party's primary and picking "best potentially electable" over "guy I like the most".
Ultimately though, it's your ballot. I toyed with the idea of voting in the GOP primary in 2012 but didn't since I didn't really like any of the candidates more than the other. I did vote in the GOP primary this spring because I legitimately wanted the "other guy" to be the GOP nomination for governor even if he wasn't going to be my general election choice. Granted, "my" guy lost anyway but so it goes.