Californians paying zero attention to governor's race

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Low turnout destroyed down ballot Democrats in California. Just look at the even-ish PVI districts like Assembly 65, where the margin should have been tight, but Sharon Quirk-Silva got wiped out.

Democrats lost (I believe) the supermajorities in the Assembly and Senate as a result.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Millions more ballots remain to be counted.

Yeah, honesty I should just check back in two weeks.

Our current Secretary of State sucks, and the office as a whole is terribly inefficient and ineffective. Bowen was just planning to use that office as a stepping stone, but luckily lost the primary for a seat in Congress.

Not that Padilla will likely be any better. He's trying to move up in the ranks too, doubt he cares at all about being Secretary of State. Who knows, maybe he'll surprise everyone and do something groundbreaking like fixing their website...

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

I guess this is a result of the nonpartisan redistricting. I'm thinking we'll end up seeing eight to ten seat swings in the Assembly every year as a result of Presidential/high turnout and midterm/abysmal turnout with a Democratic majority for eternity.

Senate should remain more stable, and have a Democratic majority for as long as the eye can see as well. The even seats will always be contested in midterm years and the odd seats will always be up in Presidential years. This year was the first that the even seats were up with the new "nonpartisan" map.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Can't believe San Diego, San Bernardino, and Riverside all voted against this superb governor.

San Diego caught me off guard. But Riverside and San Bernardino just suffered from extremely poor turnout.