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Cleita

(75,480 posts)
Thu May 17, 2012, 04:52 PM May 2012

Have you looked at your ballot? Effing s**t!!!

This open primary BS is just that. Of the list of candidates of all parties you vote for one. The top two vote recipients will be on the ballot, so that could be two Republicans or two Democrats instead of a candidate from each party in the general election. What fresh hell is this? What can we do to overturn this stupid law? I did vote against it. Why did a majority vote for it? I'm pissed!

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demosincebirth

(12,518 posts)
1. The voters have spoken in the last election. Another reason why I think some voters have no brains,
Thu May 17, 2012, 06:44 PM
May 2012

even here in California.

Retrograde

(10,068 posts)
10. That's why my default position on the state props is No
Sat May 19, 2012, 12:27 PM
May 2012

Unless I hear a really compelling argument for why a proposition will actually solve a problem we really have I vote no.

roody

(10,849 posts)
2. I voted against it too. Yet
Thu May 17, 2012, 10:52 PM
May 2012

at the moment I am liking it. It is giving the lesser known or less establishment candidates a chance.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
3. I don't think so.
Fri May 18, 2012, 03:06 AM
May 2012

Idiots like Orly Taitz will pull votes from viable candidates. DiFi or the other two Dems could lose against all those Republicans and Libertarians running. We may have a choice between a Republican and a Libertarian and no Democrat whatsoever. This is another RWing tactic to marginalize our liberals even more. It's a poison pill just like the two-thirds majority rule in the Legislature, which leads to rule by the minority. Gawd, it's just awful!

roody

(10,849 posts)
4. We also have the possibility of two Dems
Fri May 18, 2012, 09:38 AM
May 2012

facing off. I would love to see a humane Democrat beat DiFi.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
5. The odds are against it.
Fri May 18, 2012, 02:15 PM
May 2012

From what I can recall by memory because I already mailed in my ballot, there were only three Democratic candidates including DiFi. If The Democratic vote is split 50/50, it dilutes whatever Dem gets the most votes, most likely DiFi. If we had primaries done the way we used to, we would have had a Dem come on top whether DiFi wins or not. This way the Dems can be drowned because the Republican votes among the I think eight other candidates could prevail and two Republicans or a Republican and a Libertarian will have the two top votes. I mean the odds favor it. Considering this was a RWing backed law, they already have figured out that the odds are in favor them.

Throd

(7,208 posts)
6. I live in an area that will always have Republican representation.
Fri May 18, 2012, 06:29 PM
May 2012

Under this new method I can see the more moderate Republican winning because Democrats will vote against a far right candidate. Hopefully, in the long run we will have more candidates elected from the squishy middle where most people live, and the far left and far right can hurl feces at each other like the chimpanzees they are.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
7. Until I got redistricted, I too had a Republican king for a representative, but that
Fri May 18, 2012, 07:39 PM
May 2012

was the failure of the Democrats to run a Democrat against him, not the primary system. I could find myself easily having to choose between two Republicans now instead of having a Democrat to choose against a Republican regardless of how much of a long shot it would be. If that happens, then I don't think I will vote. The system is truly broken then and my vote doesn't count. I can join the ranks of disenfranchised voters. I will not vote for a Republican as the lesser of two evils.

Think about it. Instead of holding your nose and voting for DiFi because at least she does do some progressive things, you might have a choice between Orly Taitz and Meg Whitman for senator.

mitchtv

(17,718 posts)
8. what a stupid ballot, but hey they asked for it
Fri May 18, 2012, 11:06 PM
May 2012

DiFi was halfway down the second page. what kind of morons voted for this shit? I was worried enough to vote Dianne , previous threats notwithstanding

Retrograde

(10,068 posts)
11. I'm old enough to remember reasonable Republicans
Sat May 19, 2012, 12:32 PM
May 2012

McCloskey was my rep back in the day: he tried to get back in to oust the ultra-right wing Pombo a few years back but didn't make it. Same with Tom Campbell running against Fiorina in the last primary.

BTW, my ballot has 3 Dems and 1 Libertarian for state assembly - not one Republican.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
12. I'm glad to hear it cause my ballot is exactly the opposite. Well there is
Sat May 19, 2012, 05:55 PM
May 2012

one Dem against the others. However, he won't make it on the final ballot. I really would have preferred having a representative from each party on the ballot. That's true representative government, not this circus.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
13. Prop 14 was Abel Maldonado's pound of flesh
Mon May 21, 2012, 01:28 PM
May 2012

for being a "traitor" to the anti-tax repukes and voting for the budget a couple of years ago. So the absurd two-thirds rule is at fault here, too.

You know who has a similar system? Louisiana. I speak from personal experience when I tell you that emulating Louisiana politics is NOT a good idea.

One of the dumbest initatives in California history. Prop H8 is, of course, Number One, followed closely by the dreaded Prop 13 and the soon-invalidated Prop 187. Prop 26, which further hamstrung our ability to raise revenue and thus handed even more power to the repukes, is right up there, too.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
14. I trace all our ills back to proposition 13, yet we will never get rid of it because working class
Mon May 21, 2012, 01:58 PM
May 2012

property owners benefit from it and won't vote for any initiative to rescind it and start over again. Reagan and Jarvis are responsible for this.

jacobs27

(7 posts)
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May 2012

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