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What's the deal with the LA Senate Race?
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:41 pm
Why are there so many split votes for multiple R candidates? I'm not familiar with the LA political process. Are these all write-ins?
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Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:42 pm to TerryDawg03
It's an open primary. So everyone was on the ballot instead of having party primaries back in the spring/early summer.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:43 pm to TerryDawg03
Because a small percentage of our population wishes they lived in France.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:43 pm to TerryDawg03
our first primaries are a "jungle" primary, which is a super open primary where anybody can run. if nobody gets 50% + 1, there is a primary of the top 2
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:44 pm to TerryDawg03
Jungle primary. If a single candidate takes the majority they win. If no majority, top 2 candidates no matter the party go to runoff.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:44 pm to SlowFlowPro
Don't worry. After tonight the dem national committee won't give a dime to ms. Piggy. She's a floating duck.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:44 pm to SlowFlowPro
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our first primaries are a "jungle" primary, which is a super open primary where anybody can run. if nobody gets 50% + 1, there is a primary of the top 2
That needs to be changed. Now.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:45 pm to TerryDawg03
They allow more than just the candidates of the two major parties to run in the primary. The top two candidates then go head-to-head in a run-off election.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:45 pm to TerryDawg03
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That needs to be changed. Now.
why? i like it
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:46 pm to TerryDawg03
Open primary and if no one gets to 50% initially then the final two duke it out in a runoff. I think it's the most fair and open system in the country.
I thinks it's the same in Gerogia, right?
I thinks it's the same in Gerogia, right?
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:46 pm to SlowFlowPro
If it were like most other states, she'd already be out.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:47 pm to TerryDawg03
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That needs to be changed. Now.
Why? it not only allows people who aren't the two national party candidates to get in there but it also requires a majority vote to win.
They should do the presidential elections that way.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:48 pm to GumboPot
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I thinks it's the same in Georgia, right?
Not that I recall, but I could be wrong.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:48 pm to TerryDawg03
Never mind on my question about Ga. They are not the same.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:49 pm to GumboPot
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I thinks it's the same in Gerogia, right?
No. The runoff that was suspected in GA was due to the smaller party/independents that are allowed to run.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:50 pm to TerryDawg03
Ga has primaries. This is La.'s primary, albeit an open primary.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:51 pm to SlowFlowPro
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i like it
I have mixed feelings on it but a clear drawback is that one of the top two candidates can manipulate a third candidate to draw votes from his/her biggest opponent.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:52 pm to Asgard Device
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Why? it not only allows people who aren't the two national party candidates to get in there but it also requires a majority vote to win.
They should do the presidential elections that way.
Guess I'm just unfamiliar with it.
I'd love it if states would adopt the Maine / Nebraska rules on electoral college votes.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:52 pm to Sentrius
i think third party candidates would do taht. LA is a weird state that mixes all sorts of political ideologies
Posted on 11/4/14 at 11:52 pm to roguetiger15
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Don't worry. After tonight the dem national committee won't give a dime to ms. Piggy.
Is that what they did in 2002?
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