Discussion: Calif. Shuts GOP Out From Senate Race With 2 Dems Advancing To Runoff

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Because whoever was third had less than 18%?

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When the 3rd-highest vote-getter is pulling like 9 percent, thatā€™s how.

The GOP ran like 20 candidates, itā€™s no shocker that they got skunked.

Edit: I erred. The top vote-getting GOP was 8%, not 9%.

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No one had a majority and those two were the top two.

https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_California,_2016

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Because itā€™s June, not November.

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Best thing about this - the Republicans are the ones that insisted on an open primary and non-partisan redistricting because they though it would be to their great benefit!

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Here was the GOPs reaction:

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The real furor is going to be when a race with a 60-40 registration edge for one party ends up with two from the minority party going to the General election because the majority party has 8 challengers slugging it out for what they think will be a shoo-in.

Itā€™s bound to happen within a couple of years, and I hope it happens to someone high-profile like Kevin McCarthy or Tom McClintock.

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It was a Schwarzenegger thing. Both major parties hated nonpartisan redistricting and Top-Two, but they couldnā€™t stop it.

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Can you imagine the absolute shit-fit that will be going on in trailer parks all over this country with Trump signs on their lawns come November? I was outside one in 2008 when Obama got elected and I could hear the screams of 'ni(CLANG!) when they werenā€™t drowned out by the crash of empty whiskey bottles being hurled at cheap paneling. I canā€™t wait!!

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But wait, wasā€™t Sanders close to winning it? Boy, did the press get that wrong.

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Now we have to choose between two excellent candidates.
Too bad the US House is so damned toxic. I completely understand why Sanchez would want to get out. But itā€™s a pity as she does a fine job.

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@captaincommonsense has the answer. R named Sundheim got 400,00 votes placed third with 8.2%.

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I voted for Sanchez yesterday. Not because I have anything against Harris, but just on the off-chance that we could shut Republicans out of the Fall race.

DING!

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Are you saying Harris will repel Rs because sheā€™s perhaps too far to the left?

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Duf Sundheim, the ex-California GOP party chair. Tom Del Beccaro is another ex-chair, he pulled 4 percent.

That seems to be the default pattern for races they canā€™t get a real contender for, the Republicans send out an ex-party chair.

I laughed to hear that Ron Unz got less than 2 percent. Another wealthy GOP empty suit.

Greg Conlon, another also-ran. Same with Phil Wyman, the gypsy candidate that would run for any seat he could get.

The saddest thing is, NONE of these guys could get ANY traction, and several of them are fairly wealthy to where they could have at least bought some press.

The California GOP is in whatever is worse than a shambles.

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I think Kamala can cobble together the votes she already has, add in the P&F and Green votes, and the NPPā€™s and other Democrats that are Not Loretta Sanchez and have more than enough to get this done in November. (thatā€™s a total of like 51%)

I just hope the leftovers donā€™t gravitate to Sanchez as the ā€˜anti-Kamalaā€™.

Butā€¦Sanchez isnā€™t really a dynamic or personable candidate though, and sheā€™s gaffe-prone. Kamala should also have a funding advantage.

Iā€™m hoping 65-35 Harris in the end.

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HA ha!

/Nelson Muntz laff

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Coming in 2018ā€¦Democrats get both slots for the Governorā€™s race. :wink:

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Not quite. June usually favors more Republicans. And in spite of the bad feelings on the board here, the fact that there were still some HRC vs. Bernie stuff going on yesterday, that brought out MORE Democrats, not less.

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No. What Iā€™m saying is that California Republicans now have NO Senate candidate in the Fall election. This is primarily (pun intended) through their own fault; they couldnā€™t find anyone who could bring Republican voters together. The California Senate primary was sort of a microcosm of the Presidential Primary- all of their candidates sucked, and Republican voters knew that. I just did my little part to help, thatā€™s all.

Trump is not going to win California, and now that they have no Senate Candidate, California Republicans have less reason to vote than usual. I donā€™t believe in suppressing the vote, but if my vote makes someone else depressed because their vote is irrelevant, thatā€™s just too bad.

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