I just encountered an issue about corruption within my political parties, and chose a somewhat middle-ground option, which required that political parties hold primaries for their nominees, but only registered members of the party could participate. This made sense for me (especially as an American where we have this system in more than a few states). It allows the people to chose their nominee, while prevent opposition parties from hijacking the nomination.
It dropped my political freedoms from average to below average. Thankfully I was able to rebound on another issue having to with free speech, but it still didn't make any sense to me. Before hand, we had lobbyists with big pockets buying the nominees (according to the issue), after, we held primaries. Shouldn't that have increased my political freedom?