[EL] California top-two effect on number of Republicans running for US House

[Jack Santucci]

How do we know it's top-two? Might it have to do with redistricting? Other
year-specific strategic considerations? Idiosyncratic factors?

Best,
Jack

On Thursday, September 27, 2012, Richard Winger wrote:

> The Republican Party has candidates on the ballot in 415 U.S. House
> districts this year (out of 435 districts in the nation).  Of the twenty
> districts in which there is no Republican, nine of them are in California.
> By contrast, in 2010, every California district had a Republican on the
> ballot.
>
> In 2010, the Republicans nationally had candidates on the ballot in 428
> districts, so two-thirds of the national reduction for the party is due to
> California's top-two system.
>
> Richard Winger
> 415-922-9779
> PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
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