I know that I haven't been posting this year as much as I used to, but what have I missed in this race that so many are voting for Lee over Porter or Schiff?
I would have said Schiff, by the way, but is there actually something to Lee now being the front-runner? Or is it an Atlas overreaction to something?
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Someone help me see the reason for the Lee enthusiasm. Very limited polling but in what polling we have had she trails the two other Democrats badly. She has also raised nowhere near as much money as Schiff or Porter. I don't have a dog in this fight and would be fine with Lee but as an outsider I just don't see why Lee should be leading this poll.
California is a machine state, Lee has received the types of endorsements relevant to a machine state, and Boss Newsom has promised to appoint a black woman in the increasingly likely event that Feinstein resigns or dies before November 2024.We haven't had a meaningful poll since
Porter's Nov. internal (a Feb. UC Berkeley poll polled
only Dems & non-affiliated voters, making it irrelevant since CA has nonpartisan blanket primaries), & in the meantime since, Porter (30%) got sh*t for announcing during a natural disaster (& not waiting for DiFi) in addition to the Klob-like sh*t she gets everytime a bad employee-treatment story drops, Schiff (29%) entered with Pelosi's support, Lee (9%) got in with the support of Kamala's ex-statewide network (incl. her sister as well as her ex-CoS who's literally running Lee's Super PAC) & pretty much the rest of the Bay Area machine's support (not to mention the support of pretty much every major Black elected official in the state except still-neutrals Maxine Waters & Shirley Weber), significant because regionalism still matters somewhat in CA politics & the Bay Area has notoriously punched above its weight in previous elections (& its machine is currently hoping to retain its hold on DiFi's Senate seat after losing the Boxer/Harris seat to Padilla, nevermind DiFi herself siding with Pelosi in wanting SoCal's to have both seats with Padilla & Schiff), & Khanna (6%) chose not to even get in & instead endorsed Lee.
*FWIW: the irrelevant-for-all-intents-&-purposes Berkeley poll had Schiff on 22%, Porter on 20%, Lee on 6%, & Khanna on 4%.
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