CaptionRepublican primaries in North Carolina will continue to be open to unaffiliated voters.
GOP spokesman Jordan Shaw says the party's Executive Committee overwhelmingly rejected a resolution that would only allow Republicans to choose the party's nominees.
Voters unaffiliated with a party have been helping pick who runs on the GOP ticket since 1988.
Republicans pushing the change argued party members should be the ones picking their nominees because independents are more inclined to back moderates.
But many state leaders worried changing the rules could damage Republican chances to win elections in 2010.
Unaffiliated voters have been allowed in Democratic primaries since 1996.
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- JC on 11/21 03:11 PM
You are lucky they let a moron like you live in the world they built for simpletons like you. Sounds like you are the racist, always playing that card because you have nothing else to play with.
- Jeff Bordeaux on 11/21 01:52 PM
Circle the wagons.. these reputards only want a family affair. white men only so let them have it. Racists all to themselves as the world passes them by
