2018 CA-GOV and CA-SEN results comparison

[TheLaRocca]

What’s with the Newsom-de Leon areas? Who are these anti-Feinstein Democrats in these places? Why are such Democrats less common in the urban areas?
Feinstein: 54.2%, de Leon: 45.8%

The Democrats in the Emerald triangle are different than the ones in the bay. They tend to be quite leftist but also very anti-establishment. Which explains how Bernie won Mendocino/Humbolt in the primary but also De-Leon.

You also had an extremely high Nader vote up there.

[TheLaRocca]

Notably, the only district with a significant urban core that de Leon won is in San Diego (CA-51), where he won both counties in the district. Why are San Diego voters less inclined to vote for Feinstein than voters in LA/OC?

I was gonna assume the next question you'd ask would be "Why did de Leon lose Santa Cruz County?"

Nonetheless:

Perhaps the dominant questions to ask should be "Why did de Leon win & lose the counties/districts that he did? Provide an answer for every specific county & district"

(1) lack of name rec
(2) lower turnout from UCSC during the mid-terms (this is a major reason really if it was a presidential election he would have won)
(3) suburbs of SC (Scots Valley, Capitola) are pretty "moderate"-Democrat, more favorable to establishment Democrats.
(4) SC is very left-wing, but Feinstein is popular with Democrats (for some reason). So you would have alot of people who are left-Democrats but still vote for the party line. And Feinstein was the default choice.