Bill Whalen, a long-time Hoover Institution Fellow, says in his column here that the California top-two system “may need some repair.” He cites the tendency of voters to simply skip voting in partisan races with only two candidates from the same party. He himself says he voted for Kevin De Leon for U.S. Senate last week, not because he agrees with De Leon, but because he wanted to “punish” Dianne Feinstein.
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Edited By Richard Winger
NO *REPAIR* FOR DISASTER STUFF —
DIRECT TO POLITICAL HISTORY GRAVEYARD — ALONG WITH DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS, SLAVERY, ETC.
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NO PRIMARIES.
PR AND APPV
Jungle primaries exclude third parties from the general election. That’s enough reason to junk them. (Unless we, to riff on Demo Rep, used RCV to get to the top two.)
Keep top 2 only if it means that parties nominate only 1 candidate per race and gives voters 2 votes to decide who qualifies for the runoff. Im sure if this would work third party and independent candidates would do well and even win.
Top One is MUCH more efficient than Top Two. One party rule! See how well it’s worked in USSR, Zimbabwe, Cuba, North Korea. The way of the future!
CB forgot Germany [Hitler], Italy [Mussolini], Japan [Tojo] in WW II and RED China since 1949 [esp Mao].
Who needs any party ??? See earlier Roman Empire — god-emperors.
Right on, DR!
How EVIL cute is it to have ANY lover of killer tyrants/monarchs on this list ???
— like CB ???
— a throwback to the Stone Age ???
— of killer gangs killing / enslaving other gangs and claiming turf control ???
Gee- what political science progress in 6,000 plus years or what ???
Where is the oldest nation-state regime land border — maintained by FORCE ???
Somebody filed a ballot initiative to repeal Top Two primary for the 2018, but unfortunately they failed to get enough signatures to place it on the ballot. This initiative ought to be re-filed, and a more serious effort needs to be made to get it on the 2020 ballot.