What if the California senatorial race had had a Republican candidate? (user search)

Kerrington
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	What if the California senatorial race had had a Republican candidate? « on: December 15, 2016, 05:40:27 AM »
	« edited: December 15, 2016, 10:20:29 AM by Kerrington »

Would it have had an affect on the presidential race in California?
I guess many Republicans stayed at home this year since they knew that neither Trump nor a GOP candidate for Senate would win their vote. That's why I assume that California voted even more Democratic than it had already done before.
In 2012, a very Democratic-leaning presidential year, Elizabeth Emken received 4,713,887 votes.
Hence, with a GOP candidate on the senatorial ballot, Clinton might have even lost her nationwide popular vote win.

This question is about Clinton's nationwide popular vote!

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Kerrington
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Re: What if the California senatorial race had had a Republican candidate?

« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2016, 08:59:32 AM »

Quote from: Senator LLR on December 15, 2016, 07:23:41 AM

Let's dispel with this fiction that people vote upballot based on downballot races. That's just not a thing. And it wouldn't have cost her 2.6 million votes. No way.

The other way round: It wouldn't have cost Clinton 2.6 million votes, but Trump might have gotten 2.6 additional votes.

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

« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2016, 10:15:06 AM »

Quote from: Mike67 on December 15, 2016, 10:12:34 AM

No dark blue California would still have been all in for Hillary.

That wasn't my question.

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