2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumOily Taint could well end up being DiFi's challenger in November
For those of you back East, California just adopted a loopy Louisiana-style open primary system in which all candidates of all parties run on a single primary ballot, with the top two facing off in November. An astonishing 24 candidates are running for the U.S. Senate seat, 22 of whom you have never heard of. The others are incumbent Sen. Feinstein -- and birfer queen Orly Taitz!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/04/MN0O1ORH2K.DTL
A second-place finish by Taitz would be seen in both parties as a national embarrassment for the Republican Party, rivaling the candidacy of Christine "I am not a witch" O'Donnell, the 2010 GOP Senate nominee in Delaware.
As for myself, I'm voting for Democrat David Levitt:
http://www.levitt2012.org/
villager
(26,001 posts)...who she'd have to run against in the general....
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)A fellow DUer turned me on to Levitt.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)No rules, fight to the death.
Thanks for the link to Levitt, I otherwise would be in a quandry as D.F. is no friend to progressives.
Taits would win that easily. Crazy people are scrappers.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)The bigger their platform the harder it is for Mitt Ramney to disentangle from them; and then if he does, he alienates voters that he needs.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)end prohibition?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)this is California, after all.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)...I was going to vote DiFi but now I might just have to throw the dart on Levitt.
Tresalisa
(549 posts)Every time I hear that name it cracks me up! :chuckles:
California just adopted a loopy Louisiana-style open primary system in which all candidates of all parties run on a single primary ballot, with the top two facing off in November.
My state does that, too, since 2008.
dimbear
(6,271 posts)It would be nice if it was Orly. Lunatic dentists have been funny since W C Fields and Charlie Chaplin.
Bring it on.
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)Who came up with California's new system that puts the top two primary vote getters on the final ballot even if they are from the same party?
Primary voters aren't representative of the overall populace but they could limit the general election choices so that the most popular candidates aren't on the ballot.
Don't seem Kosha to me.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Prop 14 was his pound of flesh for breaking ranks and agreeing to the budget a couple of years ago. It never occurred to me that it might actually pass.
Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)Santorum/Taint 2016
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Some people are saying that her long-form birth certificate shows she was actually born in Russia. And in this case, they happen to be correct.
Hawaii Hiker
(3,166 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Beware of splitting the vote--don't vote "on principle" in those kinds of elections.
That's how CA ended up with Ahhhh-nuld.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)and I still think we should have been able to coalesce around Arianna Huffington.
MADem
(135,425 posts)The GOP do that--it's about the only thing they do well.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The top two votegetters regardless of party move on to November. And clearly there is no serious repuke candidate, or Oily Taint would not be a contender. I'd like to see Dianne the DINO go up against a real Dem in the fall!
MADem
(135,425 posts)someone 'for real'--Darryl Issa, maybe. And that would be ghastly!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)if he, or a similarly evil slimeball, were, it'd be a different story. As it is, it's Dianne the DINO against Oily Taint and 22 nobodies. I picked the best of the nobodies.
MADem
(135,425 posts)She certainly isn't ideal, but she has good committee assignments (which a newbie would not have), she understands party discipline, and she is the rarest of souls on Cap Hill--a female politician.
We need more of them.