Top Two Brought Campaign Wackiness; Will it Provide Typical Results?
With less than a week to go before voting closes in California’s June primary, political insiders’ attention is riveted on the endless range of possible outcomes that are a function of the three-dimensional political chess game we call the Open Primary. Big Bang’s Sheldon Cooper, while likely considering all this child’s play, might be amused, if […]
Strange Bedfellows
Politics makes strange bedfellows it is said, and you can see that reality in the scramble of ads generated under the top two primary. Don’t be surprised if strange bedfellows actually appear together soon. The way this year’s governor’s race is shaping up I would not be amazed to see a joint news conference, for […]
The Quandary Posed by Props 69 and 70
Propositions 69 and 70 on the June ballot are both bad policy of the kind California has long pursued, to its great detriment. Specifically, both measures add to the whips and chains that make California budgeting a house of bondage. Prop 69 creates even more inflexibility in an already inflexible budget system and adds even […]
Voters Want The Choice Top Two Provides
Let’s be perfectly clear about how California adopted the Top Two primary system: Voters approved it. And it won a majority vote in every county but two – Tulare and Orange. Voters want the freedom to choose. In this case, a majority of voters want to choose from among all of the candidates because they […]