With decline-to-state voters now the fastest-growing political “party” in California, it’s becoming cool to be nonpartisan.
Candidates for secretary of state, insurance commissioner and superintendent of public instruction are either running without party labels or doing their best to disguise or downplay their partisan leanings.
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2014/05/14/nonpartisan-tag-growing-more-attractive/