I did not know anything about this until last night. But today’s election in California could end up changing the state’s congressional politics in a big way. On the ballot is a referendum which would scrap partisan primaries in the state and replace them with blanket, top two primaries that would tremendously weaken parties and presumably help more middle-of-the-road candidates.
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