Personally, I believe in more closed primaries. The pros far outweigh the cons. Closed primaries ensure the "integrity" of the primary and make sure that the votes counted are in the parties best interest. It may be convenient for some to have open primaries because they want to support the particularly person who they think would be a good candidate. However, primaries are held to elect who will best represent the party and who best to do that than actual party members. It may be that the party is encouraging a population to vote for a certain candidate in order to ensure he is popular with many different groups by the time the general election comes around. However, the general election pretty much satisfies this requirement. The worry of open primaries is that the opposing party with in essence rig the vote so that a unlikable, less popular candidate is chosen. This, to me, is a real concern because they are not doing what is best for the people and more importantly America.
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