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2010-06-18 Home Front: Politix

California tries a radical election experiment

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-06-18 10:20|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 "I know! Let's put FIVE bullets in the gun!"

Posted by mojo 2010-06-18 11:02|| 2010-06-18 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 It depends on the moderate. Are they the kind that will drag things out forever, or the kind that will actually pick a balanced path through a problem?

Posted by gorb 2010-06-18 11:27|| 2010-06-18 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Again, reinventing the wheel, even when nobody requested it.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-06-18 13:55|| 2010-06-18 13:55|| Front Page Top

#4 parties exist for a reason: Their members freely combine around a series of sincere and often heartfelt beliefs.

Irrelevant.

Political parties dominate the election results in most places because of the way the electoral process works.

BTW, this kind of 2 stage election is fairly common across the world and generally a good thing IMO.

Posted by phil_b 2010-06-18 19:16|| 2010-06-18 19:16|| Front Page Top

#5 A bad thing in my opinion. California is plagued by too much democracy, not too little. We have been emasculaitng the parties for the last 60 years. Where has it gotten us? Oh for the smoke filled rooms.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-06-18 19:23|| 2010-06-18 19:23|| Front Page Top

#6 a bad thing - parties exist to express platforms of positions. The point of primaries is to elect the candidate which most faithfully holds those general opinions AND can win in the general. This opens the road to shenanigans where a majority of Democrats can vote in a primary candidate that is weak and doesn't hold party values. In essence, Dem and Dem lite

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-18 20:48|| 2010-06-18 20:48|| Front Page Top

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