goferking (he/him)Fearing GOP upset, top California Democrat urges lagging candidates for governor to drop out of race
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).
It’s times like these I wish California would utilize the Pretender System to elect a governor. It would solve so many problems.