Quite important that the vote was 51.8 R - 47.4 D. It's a bit disappointing for Edwards, but nothing too out of line with what polls showed.
The polls almost all showed JBE >= Abraham + Rispone. I don’t think any had the latter outpolling him by 5%. Doesn’t bode well!
True, but it's LA. Edwards was polling from 45 to 48 in pretty much every poll taken during the final stretch of the campaign. And most people here didn't expect JBE to win outright. So the math kinda works. The only real surprise was the other 3 jokers getting less than 1% of the vote each so they weren't a factor.
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