CA-SEN 2018: What would a Feinstein-Eisen runoff look like?

[MAINEiac4434]

Feinstein wins bigly.

[MAINEiac4434]

The only people I can imagine actually giving Feinstein a run for the money are:

Kamala Harris (already Senator)
Ro Khanna (just beat Mike Honda for a House Seat)
Hilda Solis (not going for it and would be a YUGE dark-horse)

And besides Harris (who is already Senator), none of them would really come all that close...probably about the same margin as Kentucky 2014 if lucky.

Khanna and Solis won't run. None of the serious Democrats want to burn bridges in the party by running against Feinstein. Would Eisen win a few counties, or would Feinstein win them all?

Maybe some conservative areas will see "Feinstein" and "Not Feinstein" on the ballot and vote accordingly, but I think an all-county sweep is certainly possible for DiFi.

[MAINEiac4434]

I can't see conservatives voting for anyone to the left of Feinstein. I think most Republicans would stay home or hold their nose and vote for Feinstein only because the other candidate is to Feinstein's left.

Conservatives in West Virginia voted for Bernie Sanders by virtue of him not being Hillary Clinton.

[MAINEiac4434]

I can't see conservatives voting for anyone to the left of Feinstein. I think most Republicans would stay home or hold their nose and vote for Feinstein only because the other candidate is to Feinstein's left.

Conservatives in West Virginia voted for Bernie Sanders by virtue of him not being Hillary Clinton.

But I'm talking about a general election, which actually puts a candidate into office. Would those WV voters have voted for Bernie had he won the nomination, or would they still have voted for the GOP nominee? I mean you would actually vote for 311's singer over Feinstein.

No, I'm willing to bet around half of Bernie's WV primary voters would've voted for the Republican nominee even if Bernie was the Democratic nominee.

[MAINEiac4434]

I can't see conservatives voting for anyone to the left of Feinstein. I think most Republicans would stay home or hold their nose and vote for Feinstein only because the other candidate is to Feinstein's left.

Conservatives in West Virginia voted for Bernie Sanders by virtue of him not being Hillary Clinton.

But I'm talking about a general election, which actually puts a candidate into office. Would those WV voters have voted for Bernie had he won the nomination, or would they still have voted for the GOP nominee? I mean you would actually vote for 311's singer over Feinstein.

No, I'm willing to bet around half of Bernie's WV primary voters would've voted for the Republican nominee even if Bernie was the Democratic nominee.

Had those conservative Democrats not voted in the WV primary, Would Hillary Clinton have won the state's Democratic primary?

No, because West Virginia liberals were predisposed to Bernie's populism in the first place.