1. Louisiana Type > Top 2

2. I don’t know. On one hand I like the political party primary system, as it does make the most sense to me, in the general sense of a political party choosing who best represents their views. Of course, flukes happen again and again. In my congressional district, for example, a perennial, homeless, possibly mentally ill candidate beat the only legitimate candidate, a small business owner who happened to be a Berniecrat. There was also the 2012 Mark Clayton snafu, of course.

   I don’t know how to fix the problems with that, but I’m not sure the Louisiana jungle primary is the right way to go. Granted, it’s better than the awful top-two idea, but that doesn’t mean the Louisiana idea is automatically a good thing.

3. What we really need, if we keep first past the post is, blanket primary -> election (with one candidate from each party that ran in the blanket primary) -> top 2 run-off if nobody gets over 50%.

4. The Louisiana open primary is in October, with a runoff in November.

5. The top-two system and the Louisiana system are functionally the same thing. The only difference is the months that the two election parts happen in (top-two’s first election part is before November and Louisiana’s first election part is in November). I don’t understand how people say they like one of the systems but not the other.

6. For congress, the Louisiana election is in November and any run-offs are in December.

7. Its precisely the month it takes place that I view the Louisiana System as slightly better than top two. You get a much higher turnout for a general election than for a primary in the spring/summer.

8. That’s some good news there. Now if only we could get CA’s Top Two repealed, democratic elections (or what’s left of them these days) would be all the better for it in our country.

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