California has enacted a number of changes — one cannot call them “reforms” with a straight face — to its electoral system of late, notable among them the creation of an “independent commission” to draw up electoral districts and the institution of a top-two primary system, in which primary elections are putatively nonpartisan and the top two vote-getters face off in the general election, regardless of party.
The outcome, wholly foreseeable, has been to strengthen the position of Democrats.
In 29 of the electoral races decided in November 2012, one of the parties was locked out of the general election — and, to nobody’s surprise, it was the Republican party that was locked out in 20 of those 29 races.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/358552/california-protects-pedophile-teachers-kevin-d-williamson
The outcome, wholly foreseeable, has been to strengthen the position of Democrats.
In 29 of the electoral races decided in November 2012, one of the parties was locked out of the general election — and, to nobody’s surprise, it was the Republican party that was locked out in 20 of those 29 races.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/358552/california-protects-pedophile-teachers-kevin-d-williamson