At the March 3, 2020 primary, California’s 38th Assembly District had no incumbent running. Five Democrats and two Republicans filed. The two Republicans placed first and second, even though in the 2018 election, Democrats had won the seat.
The seat is in northern Los Angeles County.
The top-two system began in California in 2011. This is only the second time Democrats have been left without a candidate in the general election, in a district that the Democratic Party had won in the previous election. The first instance was in 2012, in the 31st U.S. House district.
Republicans suffered from this type of anomaly in 2018 in the 76th Assembly distrrict.
Top Two is a two-party system and that’s a lot better than what SF city council election and the State and National Libertarian Party uses which is a one-party system.
The Libertarian One 2020
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CA – 1 of the 18 petition hope States for PR, APPV, TOTSOP
Karma
What James and Jeff said. I am soooooo laughing.
The resident MORON of a zillion fake names = about as funny as deadly coronavirus.
What’s so offensive about what SocraticGadfly or anyone else said on here?
It’s not what you see, it’s what you don’t see.
@Moe Derp – clever.
Stupid MORONS saying I speak nonsense. Rudnfeutshf
Ancient LAW of 1573
TIPPY CANOE AND TYLER TOO
TYRANTS! AND PRE SKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL MORONS
The resident MORON of a zillion fake names = about as funny as deadly coronavirus —
has at least one fan of its MORONITY.
CA RED commies LOVE their RED DONKEY commie minority rule gerrymanders – even if NO Donkey was in the top 2 in the 38 Assem gerrymander Dist ???
Will the resident parrott MORON get some professional help soon ???
or merely have RW BAN it from BAN ???
https://www.shutterstock.com/search/parrott
You really need to leave me once in a while
This is better than the Three Stooges.
I concur.
Nice parrott images. Not sure what the relevance is.
Is “Rudnfeutshf” an anagram for something?
I always thought it was Tippecanoe and Tyler Too since William Henry Harrison was the hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe. Not sure what “tippy canoe” is.
Top ten, consecutively ranked for the opposite sex, MORONS!
That is incorrect about CA-31, since the district did not exist in 2010.
When there are a large number of candidates they attract more votes. Some voters will not view this as choosing which Democrat they want, but rather which candidate they want, regardless of party. Without this effect a majority of voters would have favored a Republican candidate.
Dang me, dang me
They oughta take a rope and hang me
High from the highest tree
Woman, would you weep for me?
SOME TALKING PARROTS CAN ONLY REPEAT STUFF THEY HEARD IN THEIR MINI-PARROTT BIRD BRAINS.
The minority rule ROT in the CA gerrymander Legislature is near the 25 pct minimum – due in part to the 2 DD or 2 RR type districts.
About 15 pct of the Nov R or D voters will NOT vote for the EITHER EVIL D or R respectively.
Students — save the Mar 2020 primary math of the CA top 2 primary winners.
Do the REAL minority rule math after the Nov gerrymander election.
Will be in the 5-15 pct range ??? — in CA the RED Donkey communists in the rigged primary gerrymander elections.
If you want an open primary, the best idea, IMO, is to use a cutoff percentage, like the 15% used in Presidential primaries, combined with ranked choice voting. Everyone who gets 15%, after all transfer votes, proceeds to the final ballot.
Or, you could have an open primary, with a 15% cutoff, with approval voting, instead. All the candidates who get at least 15% approval votes proceed to the final election, which could have Condorcet voting.
Do the meth, then do the math.
MORONS are like Savoir-Faire. They are everywhere!!!
Walter, the California system is not an “open primary” “Open primary” has been defined in US Supreme Court decisions and political science textbooks to mean a system in which any voter can choose any party’s primary ballot, but parties have their own primary ballots and their own nominees.
In 2004 a California state court ruled that the top-two initiative (which lost at the polls that year) could not be described on the ballot as an “open primary.”
Top-two proponents try their best to fuzz up the definitions, because “open primary” sounds good.
Go with the flow and get communal at Pee Dorm.
I’m not sure that is good advice at this juncture in time.
When will this end, MOOORONS!?!???
When the last person alive dies from rotavirus.
Something tells me Demo Rep was picked on frequently as a child
May be this will end top two. One can hope.
@RW,
Dubin refers to the Louisiana election system and the system used for 1964 senate special election in Texas (election of John Tower) as open primaries.
Segregated partisan primaries are still segregated even if a voter may choose which primary to vote in.