Californians paying zero attention to governor's race

[Associate Justice PiT]

Kashkari just lives in the wrong state. He would be much better off in neighboring states of Nevada or Arizona

     I saw him speak once. He is a very intelligent and well-spoken person, but there was no way he was going to win this race.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Kashkari just lives in the wrong state. He would be much better off in neighboring states of Nevada or Arizona

     I saw him speak once. He is a very intelligent and well-spoken person, but there was no way he was going to win this race.

Are you sure?  After what happened in Maryland, I think anything is possible in California now... 

     If all else fails, we re-elect incumbents. Last time an incumbent Governor was defeated was 1966.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Kashkari just lives in the wrong state. He would be much better off in neighboring states of Nevada or Arizona

     I saw him speak once. He is a very intelligent and well-spoken person, but there was no way he was going to win this race.

Are you sure?  After what happened in Maryland, I think anything is possible in California now... 

     If all else fails, we re-elect incumbents. Last time an incumbent Governor was defeated was 1966.

You can't recall an election in 2003?

     I went back and forth on whether to count that one, because the dynamics of a recall election are so different from a normal vote. It's also worth noting that the year before, Gray Davis won re-election while being as popular as Ebola.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Kashkari just lives in the wrong state. He would be much better off in neighboring states of Nevada or Arizona

     I saw him speak once. He is a very intelligent and well-spoken person, but there was no way he was going to win this race.

Are you sure?  After what happened in Maryland, I think anything is possible in California now... 

     If all else fails, we re-elect incumbents. Last time an incumbent Governor was defeated was 1966.

You can't recall an election in 2003?

     I went back and forth on whether to count that one, because the dynamics of a recall election are so different from a normal vote. It's also worth noting that the year before, Gray Davis won re-election while being as popular as Ebola.

Well, put a different way, no Democratic California governor not named Edmund Brown has ever been governor for more than 5 years.

     I love silly factoids like that. A personal favorite of mine: since 1928, every Republican ticket for President to win has had Nixon or Bush on it. Republicans might want to draft Jeb for 2016.

[Associate Justice PiT]

WTF happened in Lassen County? Kashkari lived around Lake Tahoe for awhile when he decided to go all mountain man, but that isn't Lassen...

     I remember it gave the largest margin of any county to recall Gray Davis. I don't know why, but it occasionally seems to give an ultra-Republican result.