I’ve seen very little mention of California in the national election news:
– from the SF Chronicle:
“Democrats were closing in early Wednesday on a sweep of California’s statewide offices.
It was a good night for Democratic incumbents, who out-raised and outspent their GOP opponents.
In one of the lowest-profile gubernatorial elections in modern California history, Gov. Jerry Brown — who never appeared in a single TV ad on his own behalf — sailed to a historic fourth term Tuesday against little-known Republican Neel Kashkari.
On a night that was grim for Democrats nationwide, nothing went wrong for Brown. Besides the wide lead he opened over Kashkari, the two ballot measures for which he campaigned — Proposition 1, a $7.5 billion water-infrastructure bond, and Proposition 2, beefing up the state’s rainy-day reserve — passed by huge margins.
Attorney General Kamala Harris was cruising toward re-election in her race against Republican Ron Gold, a Southern California attorney making his first run for public office. Harris had 56.3 percent of the vote compared to 43.7 percent for Gold.
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom won his race against Ron Nehring, former head of the state Republican Party.”
I’ve seen very little mention of California in the national election news:
– from the SF Chronicle:
“Democrats were closing in early Wednesday on a sweep of California’s statewide offices.
It was a good night for Democratic incumbents, who out-raised and outspent their GOP opponents.
In one of the lowest-profile gubernatorial elections in modern California history, Gov. Jerry Brown — who never appeared in a single TV ad on his own behalf — sailed to a historic fourth term Tuesday against little-known Republican Neel Kashkari.
On a night that was grim for Democrats nationwide, nothing went wrong for Brown. Besides the wide lead he opened over Kashkari, the two ballot measures for which he campaigned — Proposition 1, a $7.5 billion water-infrastructure bond, and Proposition 2, beefing up the state’s rainy-day reserve — passed by huge margins.
Attorney General Kamala Harris was cruising toward re-election in her race against Republican Ron Gold, a Southern California attorney making his first run for public office. Harris had 56.3 percent of the vote compared to 43.7 percent for Gold.
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom won his race against Ron Nehring, former head of the state Republican Party.”
wow.
CA is not NC.
OTOH, we had to put up with two terms of Pete Wilson and the recall election of The Arnold. Although The Arnold was very Republican Lite.