The Dallas Morning New editorializes that we should. Out increasingly partisan primaries which select candidates from increasingly protected legislative districts fuel our hyper partisan political environment. Independents have no role to play in selecting candidates. But the non-partisan blanket primary - otherwise known as the jungle primary - not only allows them to play a role, it encourages candidates to moderate their positions in order to get their votes.
Instead of having two separate primaries - one for each major party - only one primary would be held. The two top vote candidates - regardless of party - would meet in the general election.
- On a similar note, the Austin American-Statesman claims that the demise of centrists and the rise of disdain toward those willing to compromise is leading to dysfunction in Congress.
