America’s two-party system isn’t an accident — it is a direct result of our electoral structure. The political scientist Lee Drutman tells the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein how shifting to proportional ...
AT JUST HOW WARM THE WEEKEND IS GOING TO GET COMING UP. NOW BACK OVER TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THERE’S AN EFFORT UNDERWAY TO DITCH CALIFORNIA’S OPEN PRIMARY ELECTION SYSTEM. AND IT’S BECAUSE OF ...
A bipartisan effort to reform California’s “jungle primary” system, in which the top two vote-getters in the primary advance to the November general election regardless of party affiliation, is ...
For decades, many Democratic and Republican centrists (along with good-government types) have blamed partisan primaries for a lot of our political system’s ills. In 2009, one Republican centrist from ...
California voters in 2010 approved, 54% to 46%, adoption of the top-two primary system. Supporters promised that the new system, which applied to statewide and congressional races, would transform ...
(Inside California Politics) — Sixteen years after California voters approved the state’s “top two” primary, there’s a growing push to repeal the system. Under the current “jungle” primary model, all ...
In a few short months, One Nation has gone from political agitator Pauline Hanson's fringe party to a serious political disrupter. First, there was South Australia's March election where it won its ...
A Democratic strategist filed a ballot initiative for the 2028 election cycle with the attorney general’s office on May 10, that, if successful, would repeal California's "top two" primary system. The ...
Elon Musk stepping into politics sent shockwaves through the country. This video examines why his announcement matters and who stands to lose power. When outsiders enter politics, the system reacts ...
The steep rise in the One Nation vote is disrupting the political status-quo in Australia. It's something one prominent strategist is pointing to, as evidence the country's two-party political system ...