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

[Gaddie, Ronald K.]

When Edwin Edwards imposed the jungle primary in Louisiana, the Republicans had a gentleman's agreement to not run more than one candidate for any post (easy to do in the phone booth GOP days).  The agreement held -- and in most instances, worked -- until David Duke came along.

Ronald Keith Gaddie
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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] on behalf of Larry Levine [larrylevine at earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 1:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [EL] Dems have no candidate in Cal US House district, yet Dem is largest party

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

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce Cain
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 10:21 AM
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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<mailto:richardwinger at yahoo.com>> wrote:
http://www.ballot-access.org/2012/06/07/democrats-are-largest-party-in-californias-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
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