Analysis: California's major political parties feared top-two primary but emerged as powerful as before
by WRITETHRU (EDITORS: Updates with additional details from late election returns., Los Angeles Times
Jun 06, 2018
3 minutes
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 a feared opponent be shut out of a spot on
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