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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocratic Apathy Edition for July 2: "Massive' turnout increase in California primary.
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Democratic Apathy Edition for July 2: "Massive' turnout increase in California primary. (Original Post)
RandySF
Jul 2018
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Squinch
(50,773 posts)1. Wait! I thought we were supposed to be divided and in disarray!
Also, disaffected and too angry to get off the sofa.
Does this mean we're not being Democrats right?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)2. Wow! 2018 primary turnout beat 2014 general turnout?!
The 21st is the only targeted district where the Republicans saw a gain instead of losses. (What's with those people, besides widespread poverty?)
On searching, I found this WaPo partial explanation back on June 7. Possibly ceding the 21st to the GOP was a very deliberate, strategic decision.
The DCCCs long national nightmare is over. The Democrats House campaign arm, which had become a punching bag for conservatives and liberal insurgents alike, had one job Tuesday: avoid a lockout in California. It pulled that off, with four strategic decisions.
First: It encouraged T.J. Cox, who lived in the 10th District, to run instead in the 21st, a play that probably prevented a lockout in what had been a crowded primary.
Second: It endorsed Gil Cisneros in the 39th District and spent money to bring down the numbers of every Republican except Young Kim, who had surged to first place. Third: It endorsed Harley Rouda in the 48th District and spent $1 million to attack Scott Baugh, a GOP leader in the district who finally conceded the race Wednesday afternoon. Fourth: It attacked every Republican in the 49th District except Diane Harkey.
This has all been widely reported. What surprised Democrats was how little Republicans intervened to screw it up.
Democrats expected higher-than-usual turnout but feared, correctly, that voters excited by the midterms had little idea whom to vote for. Indeed, thousands of voters in the 49th District backed candidates who had already quit the race, while ... They were also confident that at least one Republican would make the runoff in each race ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/06/07/slow-waves-high-turnout-and-no-lockouts-four-lessons-from-this-weeks-primaries/?utm_term=.753828846547
First: It encouraged T.J. Cox, who lived in the 10th District, to run instead in the 21st, a play that probably prevented a lockout in what had been a crowded primary.
Second: It endorsed Gil Cisneros in the 39th District and spent money to bring down the numbers of every Republican except Young Kim, who had surged to first place. Third: It endorsed Harley Rouda in the 48th District and spent $1 million to attack Scott Baugh, a GOP leader in the district who finally conceded the race Wednesday afternoon. Fourth: It attacked every Republican in the 49th District except Diane Harkey.
This has all been widely reported. What surprised Democrats was how little Republicans intervened to screw it up.
Democrats expected higher-than-usual turnout but feared, correctly, that voters excited by the midterms had little idea whom to vote for. Indeed, thousands of voters in the 49th District backed candidates who had already quit the race, while ... They were also confident that at least one Republican would make the runoff in each race ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/06/07/slow-waves-high-turnout-and-no-lockouts-four-lessons-from-this-weeks-primaries/?utm_term=.753828846547
still_one
(91,937 posts)3. More and more people here are now voting by mail
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)4. California takes a lot of flak for its long counts
But bear in mind that we have 36 million people here, and I would rather we take the time to do it right.
Plus, whoo hoo at the results!
RandySF
(57,588 posts)5. Slow, transparent and accurate
Is better than the alternative.
Cha
(295,899 posts)6. Kick4California GOTV!