California Democrats Worried that Top-Two System Could Deprive Them of Any November Candidates in Certain Orange County Districts

According to this story in the Orange County Register, California Democrats have high hopes of winning some U.S. House seats in Orange County, where four Republican incumbents might conceivably be vulnerable. However, there are 25 Democrats running in those four districts, and because of the top-two system, there is some possibility that in one or more districts, two Republicans might place first and second, because there are so many Democrats that they will split up the Democratic primary vote.

Most of the story concerns a discussion of what happens if there is a tie vote, but that subject is barely worth discussing, because the odds of a tie in a race in which hundreds of thousands of votes are cast is overwhelmingly unlikely.


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