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One day after Democrats claimed victory in a closely watched Pennsylvania special election, a potential disaster reared up in California.
In a state that’s central to the battle for control of the House, Democrats emerged from a filing deadline late Wednesday resigned to the possibility that no Democratic candidate will appear on the November ballot in several key House races.
California’s unusual, top-two primary system — in which the top two vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party affiliation — had raised the prospect of a nightmare scenario in several districts where crowded fields of Democratic candidates might splinter their party’s share of the vote, enabling two Republicans to finish atop the field in the June primary.
In response, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and state party leaders had spent weeks running up to the deadline working to cull large fields of Democrats in targeted contests.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/15/california-democrats-disaster-2018-ballot-465460?lo=ap_c1
the cull, however, tragically, failed
the CA jungle primary
the winners---R's in CA49, CA39 and CA48
the current demesnes of dana rohrbacher, ed royce and evil darrell issa
"with eight D's competing for between 40 and 45 percent of the district’s traditional D vote, the odds of one of the eight consolidating enough of the vote to overcome baugh’s popularity and name recognition are daunting, to say the least"
of the 14 CA seats held by R's and won by hrc, 7 are on dccc's wish list
3 of those 7 are rohrbacher, royce and issa
"the prospect of D candidates cannibalizing each other in those races has weighed heavily on the party"
Asked whether Democrats had done enough to ensure their candidates a place on the November ballot, Michael Trujillo, a Democratic strategist in California said, “The answer is a big, fat ‘No.’”
pete aguilar got lost in CA's jungle in 2014, altho D's outregister R's in this part of the inland empire, he failed to make the general, leaving 2 R's to fight it out
it led to gary miller who, being R, must be a racist
the dccc conceded it may be forced to spend in its primaries, thus taking sides
predictably, "efforts to winnow candidates faced resistance from well-funded candidates and some local activists"
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