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I wonder how enamored people are going to be with this “jungle primary” idea when their first general election presents two candidates from the same political party.

Written by: Tedski
This was written by Tedski. Posted on Tuesday, July 3, 2012, at 8:12 am. Filed under Initiatives, Referenda and Recalls, Quick Take. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

5 Comments

  1. jodi wrote:

    California has this?

    Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 3:09 pm | Permalink
  2. AZW88 wrote:

    Yes, Joni, and Tedski’s scenario has just that problem 5 Democrats and 2 Republicans ran for office, the dems split up the vote and now the 2 republicans are running against each other in the general. In a Dem district.

    Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 4:00 pm | Permalink
  3. Bill wrote:

    In the 2010 AG race Andrew Thomas and Tom Horne both got more votes than any of the Democrats. So theoretically in a jungle primary the general election could have been Thomas against Horne. On the other hand, how many Republicans were there that were completely sickened by the Horne-Thomas primary and would have voted for Democrat Rotellini? So it’s very difficult to predict how any particular race will play out. It is clear, however, that having the party coalesce behind a single candidate will be a big advantage in such a scenario.

    Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 5:20 pm | Permalink
  4. Arizona Eagletarian wrote:

    I don’t think many people will like it, but will wait until it passes and gets put into use before figuring that out.

    Much better alternative is Ranked Choice, aka Instant Runoff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

    and

    http://www.sfelections.org/demo/english/index.html

    Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at 2:41 am | Permalink
  5. Christopher Francis wrote:

    Dearest Commenters,

    I am not sure what end this will come to, but if it takes power away from the parties and gives more power to the independent voters who despise them… well, it can’t be all bad.

    Your Humble Servant,
    Christopher

    Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 10:41 pm | Permalink