[EL] Dems have no candidate in Cal US House district, yet Dem is largest party

[Larry Levine]

We had a close brush with what would have been an example in a statewide
race. While it wasn't a perfect example for several reasons, we almost had a
situation in which the top two finishers in the attorney general's race
would have been Republicans and the ultimate winner would have been kept off
the General Election ballot for the second most important office in the
state. A reporter told me the Democrats shouldn't have allowed so many
candidates to run in that Primary. Imagine the news stories if some party
boss tried to keep candidates out of the race.

Larry

 

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[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce
Cain
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 10:21 AM
To: richardwinger at yahoo.com
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Subject: Re: [EL] Dems have no candidate in Cal US House district, yet Dem
is largest party

 

Richard

 

If and when the same thing happens at the statewide level, the top two will
immeditately lose favor.  But if that does not happen, we have to wait for
the myth of the polarization miracle cure to die its slow, inevitable death.


Bruce Cain

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Richard Winger <richardwinger at yahoo.com>
wrote:


http://www.ballot-access.org/2012/06/07/democrats-are-largest-party-in-calif
ornias-31st-u-s-house-district-but-top-two-open-primary-leaves-party-with-no
-candidate-in-november/

 

Rob Richie also posted about this race on this list yesterday.  I was
expecting some discussion, but so far I haven't seen any.

Richard Winger
415-922-9779
PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147


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