Who's idea was it to do the primary the way they do it in CA?

[Eliot Rosewater]

Last edited Fri Mar 16, 2018, 07:08 PM - Edit history (1)

The deal was voted on I just found out in 2010, it is likely going to benefit the GOP, so was this a proposition slipped in by the GOP that the people were tricked into voting for?

i.e. top two vote getters, not a word I know, so if the field is swamped with democrats and no one democrat has enough votes then the GOP can end up being the only two candidates?


Yeah, just as I thought, benefits so called progressives, that is what this does

There are so many Democrats running for Congress in some districts that they could split the votes in the June 5 primary and send two Republicans to the November election,

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-democrats-narrowing-house-fields-20180224-story.html

[SoCalNative]

1. Nothing benefits the GOP

in California. They don't have enough voters in the areas that count.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Wait, if you have 2 GOP running and 8 DNC, isnt it possible

the two GOP will get more votes than ONE of the 8?

If the votes are usually 60/40 dem, but you have to split 60% of the votes between 8 candidates but you only split 40% of the vote on two in the GOP, unless one or two of the dems get the vast majority of the votes...see what I mean?

Many are talking about this being an issue and I wanted to know who sponsored the proposition. Did democrats sponsor it not expecting that many candidates to run in a given district?

[SoCalNative]

3. It hasn't been an issue

in any election in CA thus far.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Ahh, but

1. it has only been since 2010 per what I just read

and more importantly

2. a certain group of progressives is out there supporting many new candidates to go after seats...where we might have had 3 candidates for a seat in the past now there might be 7 or something

I dont know any details about individual races, but I do know this new push by this new group of "progressives" could be an issue.

[SoCalNative]

5. California has 53 Congressional districts

Only 14 of them have elected republicans in office.

I'm not concerned.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. BIG problem, actually

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210368627

[Tiggeroshii]

6. Republicans

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. I would like more info on that, who did this, links?

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Did the democrats push the proposition not anticipating this new so called group of progressives causing a numbers problem?

[left-of-center2012]

8. geeze

[The River]

9. Really

[Lordquinton]

10. What are you talking about?

Since that's been in place the gop has been pushed out of the state in landslides. The issues we have are more conservative dems wedging out more progressive ones.