Knight: 36%
Uygur: 22%
Smith: 20%
Other D: 12%
Other R: 10%
Every time I think about this race, I get flashbacks to Eric Cantor and Joe Crowley losing their district. Yeah, there's no incumbent, but Christy Smith might as well be one, she's endorsed by the party establishment in California and avoided a debate with the other Democrats. Is it possible Uygur could squeak out a win (or rather, a top-two spot)? I know, most likely not. Christy Smith can just win off of name recognition being one of the district's assemblypersons, but huge upsets have happened before. He has a huge volunteer base and is going all over the place in the district. Regardless of whether or not you like him, I gotta admit it's pretty admirable the way he's running his campaign from what I've seen.
I'm talking about not taking any big money and running completely independent of the Democratic machine in California, pretty simple. I'm not surprised 'party activists' don't support him. Most of his support is going to come from independent lefties who aren't party loyalists. And don't even get me started on that last bit, isn't all that sh**t he said like 15+ years ago that he's completely renounced? I don't like him at all, but this political correctness cancer on the Democratic party is making it so anyone who ever said anything bad ever or changed their mind cannot possibly run for office. It's disgusting, it's the same crap that they bashed Bernie with when he endorsed him and it's awful that he caved to those twitter monsters.
1. It's not really all that impressive that one can self-fund when they have a huge media outlet like the Young Turks doing constant propaganda for them and allowing them to get donations from pretty much everywhere BUT the district he is running in. It is nothing like Bernie's donor base, which he earned entirely off of his own personal popularity and without the help of media.
2. The party convention endorsed De Leon in 2018 and a bunch of progressives in the jungle primaries, so yes a lot of them are Berniecrats (hell, Bernie is probably favored in Cali right now).
3. I generally give Cenk a pass on the blogs from 15 years since they seem to be a joke, but criticizing someone denying the Armenian genocide up until 2010, not to mention spreading this belief to his more impressionable viewers, is not me being some #woke SJW. At the very least it shows a lack of judgment. The degrading of women I was referring to was him rating women who were vying for political office based on their attractiveness. Again, at the very least shows a lack of respect for women.
Probably wasting my time anyway, considering I just wrote a multi-paragraph post on a candidate unlikely to achieve third party status.
