{"id":40195,"date":"2014-06-03T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=40195"},"modified":"2014-06-03T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:10:29","slug":"the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-californias-top-two-primary-election-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/06\/03\/the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-californias-top-two-primary-election-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good, Bad, and Ugly of California&#8217;s &#8220;Top-Two&#8221; Primary Election System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140603Uprising\/2014_06_03_primary_elections.mp3\">Listen to this segment with John Nichols <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140603Uprising\/2014_06_03_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/primary_election_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Californians, Iowans, and Mississippians, are going to the polls today to vote in a number of Congressional and gubernatorial primary elections. Here in California, a top-two system ensures that only the top two vote getters, regardless of party affiliation, will make it to November&#8217;s general election. Democratic incumbent Jerry Brown leads with a comfortable margin for the governor&#8217;s position, while a number of candidates including Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Lee, Mike Honda, Brad Sherman, and Xavier Becerra are seeking re-election. Meanwhile Congressman Henry Waxman is retiring and a fierce battle for his seat is ensuing. <\/p>\n<p>In Mississippi, where it is mostly Republicans in high-stakes primary races, establishment GOP candidates are facing a stiff fight from the Tea Party. And in Iowa, a high-profile Senate primary has pitted a conservative veteran, Joni Ernst, against Mark Jacobs. A total of 8 states are holding elections today, just weeks after the May 20th primaries in the first round of state elections. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: John Nichols, the Washington DC correspondent for the Nation Magazine, a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times, and associate editor of the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. He has written many books, the latest of which is co-written with Bob McChesney called Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Campaign is Destroying America. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Californians, Iowans, and Mississippians, are going to the polls today to vote in a number of Congressional and gubernatorial primary elections. Here in California, a top-two system ensures that only the top two vote getters, regardless of party affiliation, will make it to November&#8217;s general election. Democratic incumbent Jerry Brown leads with a comfortable margin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40208,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40195\/revisions\/40208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}