Analysis: California's major political parties feared the top-two primary but emerged as powerful as before
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's most wide-open primary in two decades ended Tuesday with contests from governor to seats in the U.S. House that seemed focused, even fixated at times, on the race for second place.
The rules of the top-two primary - in which a cluster of candidates gets whittled down to two semifinalists - seemed almost to eclipse everything else about the campaigns being waged this year.
Gamesmanship was everywhere. Could
