Opinion of Nonpartisan Blanket Primaries (Jungle, Top-2 etc.)

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Here's my main objection to it: if primaries happen during the summer, then you're moving the consequential election to a time when abysmally low turnout is the rule. So it wouldn't be increasing voters' ability to select candidates if very few of them actually turn out to vote.

Also, the terminology is off. This makes the primary into the general election, and the general election into the runoff.

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I don't mind the model for places where the partisan outcome is more or less a foregone conclusion. It would make the general an actual contest between two more evenly matched contestants, at least in theory. But I've got a problem putting most of the context back to a time (whether in spring or in summer, primaries have lower turnout than general elections) when fewer people are engaged with the process.

[Slander and/or Libel]

I don't mind the model for places where the partisan outcome is more or less a foregone conclusion. It would make the general an actual contest between two more evenly matched contestants, at least in theory. But I've got a problem putting most of the context back to a time (whether in spring or in summer, primaries have lower turnout than general elections) when fewer people are engaged with the process.

Of course the vast majority of districts are a foregone conclusion in terms of the parties. We tend to focus on the handful of true swing seats, but they are not the norm.

Sure, I know. But that's where the action is, and designing a system that makes those races easier to game at the primary stage doesn't help anything.