California get it right!!!

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6. Third party groups (and Republicans) got the proposition passed...

The type that think that Primaries unfairly benefit the Democrats or Republicans and depress the independent voter.

The "thinking" among radicals is that a "Jungle Primary" going to the top two would prove how left or right wing individualist California really might be by encouraging enough otherwise uninterested or dissatisfied main party voters to turn to an ernest candidate the Green Party, or American Independent Party, or any number of radical "grass rooters" might make top two on the ballot instead of the plethora of Business aligned Democrats and Republican career politicians that normally fill up the ballot.

And then, of course, there were the contrarians that thought it would be fun. And the GOP which had been so used to running things thought that most Democrats were too stupid or radical they would split up a Democratic block and vote third party, reducing the possibility that progressives could overcome the 1/3 Republican population.