Pro­posed Mass­a­chu­setts vot­ing change could make GOP can­di­dates more com­pet­i­tive

Mass­a­chu­setts Repub­li­cans could have their best chance in decades at win­ning House seats under a “good gov­ern­ment” pro­pos­al that Cal­i­for­nia polit­i­cal oper­a­tives want to reverse in their state.Massachusetts GOP can­di­dates haven’t gained pop­u­lar­i­ty in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic-dom­i­nant state, home to lib­er­al icons such as the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who held his seat for near­ly 47 years — and Kennedy’s suc­ces­sor a few years after his 2009 death, Sen. Eliz­a­beth War­ren (D‑MA). In 2024, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump got trounced by Demo­c­ra­t­ic rival Kamala Har­ris in Mass­a­chu­setts, 61% to 36%.But bal­lot rules would change in a way poten­tial­ly favor­able to Bay State Repub­li­cans. That is, if a Nov. 3 midterm elec­tions bal­lot mea­sure pass­es.
Under Ques­tion 3, Mass­a­chu­setts would scrap its tra­di­tion­al par­ty pri­maries and replac …