Fearing GOP upset, top California Democrat urges lagging candidates for governor to drop out of race

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Fearing GOP upset, top California Democrat urges lagging candidates for governor to drop out of race - SDF Chatter

Lemmy

Why did California pick such a clearly terrible way of running primaries? It could have worked with ranked-choice voting but, the way it is now, you get hilarious features like the Republican frontrunner being incentivized to have people vote for the other Republican rather than for him (because if he’s #1 and a Democrat is #2, he definitely loses the general election, but if he’s #1 and the other Republican is #2, he has about 50% odds of winning).
I’m thankful for their fucked uo voting system because it got me candidate Gary Coleman and governor Schwarzenegger
Before primary reform and Schwarzenegger was elected during a recall which is frankly a system that needs to be burned down and rebuilt.