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    Analysis: California's free-for-all primary election rules could surprise everyone in 2018 … again

    by John Myers, Los Angeles Times Mar 20, 2018 4 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California may appear to Democrats as an electoral oasis, a sea of newly turned-blue political maps that could quench their thirst for control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

    Or the oasis could be nothing more than a mirage, disappearing in the haze of the state's unbridled primary election rules. In places where antipathy for President Donald Trump is now sky-high, a poor showing by Democrats on Election Day would be stunning.

    "It's really through the looking glass, but Democrats could be shut out of these races," strategist Katie Merrill said.

    For the third consecutive election cycle, state and congressional races on California's primary ballot will feature large pools of candidates no longer subdivided by partisan labels. Only

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