Coming off a fresh win over her Republican opponents in Tuesday’s primary, Carly Fiorina may have uttered the very words she will regret in November. Speaking without knowledge of a live microphone, viewers caught Fiorina discussing the most non-political issue concerning her opponent; namely, Barbara Boxer’s hairstyle.
With record low turnout but strong anti-incumbent attitudes, voters dramatically changed the way California elects state officeholders by approving Proposition 14, which creates a non-partisan primary where the top two vote-getters advance to a November run-off.
Fusion voting was once ubiquitous in the United States, legal in every state of the union. With the rise of relatively powerful third party and independent political movements in the late nineteenth century, state legislatures dominated by the Democratic and Republican parties began banning the practice, and today it is prohibited in all but eight states.