signaled to republican voters that they should be supporting cox, the republican, in order to ma sure that the former los angeles mayor, villaraigosa, was knocked out of the running. i think democrats have walked away saying, the system is not working and needs tweaks before we go through this again. >> it sounded like a system t sounded good in political science class. >> i dig political science. welcome to the law of unintended consequences. no matter what you do, it's going to have unintended consequences. it created a circus. the voters know, i go for the polls and vote for the candidate i like best. that's what they've always done. it's the rules that got everything screwed up. >> caroline, if you look at district 39, ed royce's district, the retiring republican. it looks like chaos in the democratic party and a lack of leadership. seven democratic candidates,