...who she'd have to run against in the general....

A fellow DUer turned me on to Levitt.

No rules, fight to the death.

Thanks for the link to Levitt, I otherwise would be in a quandry as D.F. is no friend to progressives.

Taits would win that easily. Crazy people are scrappers.

The bigger their platform the harder it is for Mitt Ramney to disentangle from them; and then if he does, he alienates voters that he needs.

end prohibition?

this is California, after all.

...I was going to vote DiFi but now I might just have to throw the dart on Levitt.

Every time I hear that name it cracks me up! :chuckles:

California just adopted a loopy Louisiana-style open primary system in which all candidates of all parties run on a single primary ballot, with the top two facing off in November.

My state does that, too, since 2008.

It would be nice if it was Orly. Lunatic dentists have been funny since W C Fields and Charlie Chaplin.

Bring it on.

Who came up with California's new system that puts the top two primary vote getters on the final ballot even if they are from the same party?

Primary voters aren't representative of the overall populace but they could limit the general election choices so that the most popular candidates aren't on the ballot.

Don't seem Kosha to me.

Prop 14 was his pound of flesh for breaking ranks and agreeing to the budget a couple of years ago. It never occurred to me that it might actually pass.

Santorum/Taint 2016

Some people are saying that her long-form birth certificate shows she was actually born in Russia. And in this case, they happen to be correct.

Beware of splitting the vote--don't vote "on principle" in those kinds of elections.

That's how CA ended up with Ahhhh-nuld.

and I still think we should have been able to coalesce around Arianna Huffington.

The GOP do that--it's about the only thing they do well.

The top two votegetters regardless of party move on to November. And clearly there is no serious repuke candidate, or Oily Taint would not be a contender. I'd like to see Dianne the DINO go up against a real Dem in the fall!

someone 'for real'--Darryl Issa, maybe. And that would be ghastly!

if he, or a similarly evil slimeball, were, it'd be a different story. As it is, it's Dianne the DINO against Oily Taint and 22 nobodies. I picked the best of the nobodies.

She certainly isn't ideal, but she has good committee assignments (which a newbie would not have), she understands party discipline, and she is the rarest of souls on Cap Hill--a female politician.

We need more of them.