In open seats with a high partisan imbalance, you have two candidates of the same party on the general election ballot. Pretty nice for someone who is on the wrong side of an imbalanced district: the choice of the lesser evil is better than no choice at all. I know a lot of Republicans who were very happy to be able to vote for Brad Sherman over Howard Berman, that’s for sure, rather than the sacrificial lamb the Republicans usually offered against him.
i guess my question was: who appeared on the ballot on the same line as Obama and who appeared on the same line as Romney?
(in traditional western philosophy, there is no such thing as a “lesser evil.” If Sherman was Berman’s opponent and was an improvement, that is not evil.)