The most important ballot fight this November for City of San Diego voters is over Measures K&L.

Yes on Measures K and L will align San Diego with the State of California’s election rules, using the same nonpartisan top-two runoff process to elect our mayor, city attorney and council members as we use to elect the Governor, state legislators, and members of Congress.

In a series of tweets over recent days, Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein unloaded on the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton. With many Republicans abandoning GOP nominee Donald Trump for Clinton, Stein sees the emergence of what she calls #TheNewRepublicanParty.

https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/785895308442103808

Many of these tweets were published during Sunday's debate as topics ranged from the economy to foreign policy to crime -- when both candidates were not airing each other's dirty laundry, that is:

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I've written many times on IVN on the subject of the psychology of negative campaigning in U.S. elections.

In most cases, negative campaigning does exactly one thing -- it turns voters off to the point of disengaging from the political system and not voting.

But the research is also clear, that this 'turn-off' among voters tends to affect Democrats at a greater pace than Republicans.

With just under a month left in the 2016 election, it appears we have sunk to the lowest point in the race yet. Increasing numbers of top GOP party officials are either abandoning Trump or asking him to drop out of the race.

En respuesta a una pieza de opinión publicada por el LA Times, la cual prácticamente culpa a Top-Dos por la decadencia del Partido Republicano de California y su transformación a un estado de un solo partido político, Bill Bloomfield, empresario y anterior candidato independiente para el Congreso, escribió una carta al editor explicando que no se debe culpar a Top-Dos por la muerte del Partido Republicano en California, ya que el Partido Republicano es el único responsable de ello:

Information from the Federal Election Commission shows that Hillary Clinton's super PAC spent over $1 million on a program dedicated to "correcting" online attacks against the presidential hopeful.

How much influence the average citizen has on the policies of our government is a common debate. As our politicians seem so far removed from the everyday lives of the masses, one has to question how society sways elected officials toward a desired direction.

Awareness of the issues is without a doubt vital and activism is just as important. How we achieve both has been consistent throughout American history. That being public forums, gatherings, and the press.

In a response to an opinion piece published in the LA Times, essentially blaming top-two for the decline of the California Republican Party and California's move to a one-party state, businessman and former independent congressional candidate Bill Bloomfield wrote a letter to the editor over the weekend, explaining that top-two is not to blame for the death of the California GOP; the Republican Party is responsible for its own demise:

San, Diego, CALIF. - Of the five odd-numbered districts electing city council representatives in 2016, only one election truly remains: District 9.

While the District 1 election is still officially on the ballot, Republican candidate Ray Ellis pulled out of the race months ago, leaving Barbara Bry as the only viable choice in that District.