goferking (he/him)Fearing GOP upset, top California Democrat urges lagging candidates for governor to drop out of race
jordanlundCurrent polling:
ppic.org/…/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and…
Steve Hilton, a Republican - 14
Katie Porter, a Democrat - 13
Chad Bianco, a Republican - 12
Eric Swalwell, a Democrat - 11
Tom Steyer, a Democrat - 10
*Other candidates - 30
Don’t know - 10
To be clear, the primary is a top two race, so whoever the top 2 candidates are go to the general and those are your two choices for Governor.
With 1 point separating 1 from 2, 2 from 3 and so on, it could very easily be Hilton and Bianco (the only 2 Republicans running.)
30% of the vote is going to “Other”. Those folks need to drop out and endorse a candidate who can actually win.
PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Government
Key findings of the survey include: Five candidates for governor are in a virtual tie heading into the June primary, with affordability emerging as a key issue. Amid concerns about the state budget, solid majorities of likely voters support raising taxes on the wealthiest Californians. Democrats are more enthusiastic than other partisan groups when it comes to voting in congressional elections this year.
Top two is such a dumb fucking system. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least if some of the Democratic candidates are Republican plants to dilute the vote.
That’s the problem, there are only 2 Republicans running vs. 9 Democrats.
Split 9 ways, there’s no way for a Democrat to make the top 2.
The solution is party primaries, one for the Democrats, one for the Republicans, I don’t know who decided on this single primary bullshit.
I’m confused. Aren’t primaries usually per party? Pick the strongest party candidate and then those two run in the general. Is this some sort of weird open primary?
Sounds like a California thing!
That happens now and then. Schmuck and Jeffries both behave like Manchurian MAGAs.
If the two Republicans both with the primary and go on to the general election, could a campaign to recall the winner start gathering petitions to get on the general election ballot before they even know who they’re recalling?
Could a candidate get elected and recalled in the same election?
Why did California pick such a clearly terrible way of running primaries? It could have worked with ranked-choice voting but, the way it is now, you get hilarious features like the Republican frontrunner being incentivized to have people vote for the other Republican rather than for him (because if he’s #1 and a Democrat is #2, he definitely loses the general election, but if he’s #1 and the other Republican is #2, he has about 50% odds of winning).
Boomer Humor DoomergodI’m thankful for their fucked uo voting system because it got me candidate Gary Coleman and governor Schwarzenegger
vaultdweller013Before primary reform and Schwarzenegger was elected during a recall which is frankly a system that needs to be burned down and rebuilt.
It’s a poison pill to force strategic voting and push people towards candidates that are backed by money. Colorado turned down ranked choice voting, and a lot of it was due to a similar single-vote primary system being packaged with it to make it not work well for actually electing candidates the people want. Voting reform activists knew this and made sure enough people knew that ranked choice elections was a trojan horse for a bad single vote primary system.
Why did California pick such a clearly terrible way of running primaries?
I don’t know the answer, but I’ll bet it will turn out to be another dumb Democrat idea, to make things “Fair,” which ALWAYS means giving some unfair advantage to MAGAs.