What if the California senatorial race had had a Republican candidate?

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If the D v. D senate race negatively affected turnout in Republican areas, we would've seen a drop in turnout in Republican counties as well as probably a decrease in turnout from the 2012 election which had a D v. R senate race. Instead we saw turnout increase and decrease mostly irrespective of whether a county was Republican-leaning, and the turnout rate was higher than 2012.

The senate race wouldn't have been competitive either way. 2014's gubernatorial race was a snooze, I doubt anyone would've realized it was happening if you had asked them.