Washington has its Primary Elections today.  Maybe I am just too danged wedded to the Two Party System — theoretically with third parties scattered about now demolished — and its orderliness of decisions, but I don’t really like the idea of the “Top Two Primary”, generally seeing it as a place where some mischief can be borne out, and where some flukes can be passed through.  I guess my fear is, I don’t know… Gordon Allen Pross, by dent of having built in the back of people’s minds by being on the ballot every primary since 1998 and with a segment of the population bemusing themselves in lieu of their vote for the surely transferred to general election Republican incumbent Hastings, will come in second to the unknown Democratic candidate George Fearing.  Or thus is a theoretical example.  Which, I suppose in the twiliht zone where that happens, will make me prophetic, and in the real world where it does not happen would demand of me a cleaner example — though the dynamics would still be at play.  (Then again, these things happen in our conventional system.  Gray Davis staved off his political death by a year by dumping money into the Republican primary on behalf of the ultimately winning candidate.  And the 2008 Montana Republican Primaries and the 1986 Illinois Lt Governor Primary testify to flukes.  So maybe one takes the ingredients of public back-psyches and accept these oddities.  Even if the state has given itselef one more volitile stray electoral ingredient.)

Well.  Warshingtonians.  Vote today.  You have… four hours?  Then you vote again in November.  See how that works?

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