Election 2012 » Eric McGhee http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012 KQED News & The California Report Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:23:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 The Home Stretch to California’s Surpisingly Hot June Primary http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/2012/05/18/the-home-stretch-to-californias-surpisingly-hot-june-primary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-home-stretch-to-californias-surpisingly-hot-june-primary http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/2012/05/18/the-home-stretch-to-californias-surpisingly-hot-june-primary/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 21:54:19 +0000 Tyche Hendricks http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/?p=463 Continue reading →]]> United States Capitol

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The June 5 primary may look drama free. After all… The presidential contest? Settled. The U.S. Senate race? Not too exciting.

But thanks to retirements, redistricting and California’s new top-two primary, the conventional wisdom about incumbents having safe seats is being turned on it’s head.

Host Scott Shafer moderated the conversation on Forum Friday, zooming in on several hotly-contested Congressional races and analyzing two political reforms that have completely re-shuffled the deck.

He’s joined by:

  • Carla Marinucci, political writer for The San Francisco Chronicle
  • Eric McGhee, research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California and author of “Open Primaries,” a report prepared for PPIC about the possible impacts of Proposition 14
  • Matt Rexroad, Yolo County supervisor, Republican political consultant and founding partner at Meridian Pacific
  • Robert Stern, former president of the Center for Governmental Studies

Take a listen:

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