By Richard Winger According to this CNN story, the likely new Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, is expected to be more confrontational and partisan that outgoing speaker John Boehner.
McCarthy is from California, which has been using a top-two system starting in 2011. The big business interests who most strongly support California’s top-two system always seem to have sincerely believed that a top-two system produces more moderate politicians. If McCarthy behaves as CNN predicts, that will be one more data point that primary systems do not affect the kind of politicians who get elected, or their behavior. Thanks to PoliticalWire …read more