Micah Olmstead, 3, helps his mother, Jill Olmstead, cast her ballot while voting in the California primary in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Voter turnout could set a record low for a presidential primary in the state with just 35 percent of registered voters expected to cast ballots according the Field Poll .
Rich Pedroncelli, Associated Press
We pundits have been busy crunching the results in last Tuesday's Wisconsin recall election and have noted that the public-employee unions sustained a huge defeat.
Some have also looked west, to California, where San Diego and San Jose voters Tuesday voted 66 and 69 percent to cut back public-employee pensions. Those cities voted 63 and 69 percent for Barack Obama in 2008.
But there's something else worth noting in the California returns. State voters adopted a new primary procedure, in which the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, go on to the general election.
Washington state had a similar primary system in the 1990s, and the primary results tended to be replicated in November. For example, the 1994 primary results enabled some to forecast that Democrats would lose six of nine House seats in November.
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A good day for the GOP is a good day for all of us, particularly when it spells defeat for greedy, overreaching leftists in the "labor" rackets that are More..
A good day for the GOP is a good day for the Deseret News
It was, the other day, perhaps a good day for common sense and liberty in Wisconsin, but the California turnout mentioned (thirty five percent) is not a good day for anyone. It indicates the lack of choice available in elections and the consequent More..