CA GOV 2021 - 2022 megathread

[Alben Barkley]

Well I think it's safe to say the CA GOP, which once produced Reagan and Nixon, is officially and totally dead.

[Shilly]

Paffrath is leading in San Francisco with 22%. lol

[Lief 🗽]

Paffrath is leading in San Francisco with 18%. lol

based

[Gass3268]

Riverside at 54% No

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

DDNN CALLS IT FOR NO!!

[Utah Neolib]

The lag here man. Can’t imagine this on an actual presidential election

[Continential]

DDNN CALLS IT FOR NO!!

lol

[_.]

DDNN CALLS IT FOR NO!!

Don't jinx it man

[South Dakota Democrat]

NO AT 76% IN LOS ANGELES

CALL IT YOU COWARDS

Relax.  Why does it matter when the media calls it, anyway?  Them calling it or not calling it doesn't mean we don't know where it's headed.  The media projections really don't mean much, at the end of the day.

I understand the sentiment, though.

Because the press should tell the truth. And the truth is that Newsome has won. By pretending that this race cannot be called yet, they are lying to us.

I mean, not really.  I'm watching CBS, which says it's leaning no, CNN and NBC said no is in the lead.  They aren't acknowledging there's a chance that yes will prevail - it's just a matter of being 99% certain (which will come when more votes come in) so you can make a projection.

Edit:  It's also really silly to say the media is "lying" to us.  They may be acting overly cautious, but lying is a stretch.  Really over the top post, quite silly of you to say.

[Gass3268]

San Bernardino is at 58% No

[Pericles]

It's good to see the soft on Covid crowd didn't even get a moral victory. While Gavin Newsom is still a HP personally for breaking his own rules, he did a good job as Governor for imposing those rules in the first place and saving lives.

[Podgy the Bear]

We learned something here.  Running against Trump is the way to go in the blue states.

Now time for McAuliffe to do the same in VA and tie Youngkin to Trump for an easy win.

[Non Swing Voter]

Good time to point out that there are multiple posters here who predicted Newsom winning by "10 points" or LESS (just a couple weeks ago) who call pretty much any non-Republican who disagrees with them "hacks."  Perhaps time to have some humility for other perspectives?  I doubt this will change anything though.

[Roblox]

Lmao this is just delicious.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

The lag here man. Can’t imagine this on an actual presidential election

It actually wasn't that bad last November. The site usually crashes on Eday.

[Gass3268]

Lol

https://twitter.com/AstorAaron/status/1437978736876470275?s=20

[Crumpets]

Initial Inyo County results have no winning there. Waiting for ED vote.

[Matty]

We learned something here.  Running against Trump is the way to go in the blue states.

Now time for McAuliffe to do the same in VA and tie Youngkin to Trump for an easy win.

Big difference: VA will not be mailing ballots

[Non Swing Voter]

Is it possible that all of these victories will finally give Democrats some cajones to actually get something done for the voters who keep overwhelmingly rejecting the GOP in election after election?

[Alben Barkley]

Lol

https://twitter.com/AstorAaron/status/1437978736876470275?s=20

Interesting to see no gender gap between men and women with children.

[Podgy the Bear]

You really have to appreciate how Kornacki is telling you what a blowout this is even though the decision desk doesn't call it.  

[Ferguson97]

What’s gonna be real telling is how this compares to Biden in 2020 and 2018.

That’s what’s concerning to me.

The mail Ins line up exactly with the final results from 2020 general.

So the result is likely to be 5-7% better for the GOP than 2020 general.

That kind of swing would be deadly for the Dems in the midterms

Damn, Senator Joe Kennedy better watch his back.

[MT Treasurer]

One thing I do suspect (and suspected even before this) is that 2022 will be absolutely devastating for blue state Republicans/red state Democrats across the board — I expect it to be an incredibly polarized straight-ticket midterm like no other before. This result also points to such an environment.

[South Dakota Democrat]

We learned something here.  Running against Trump is the way to go in the blue states.

Now time for McAuliffe to do the same in VA and tie Youngkin to Trump for an easy win.

Big difference: VA will not be mailing ballots

Or maybe a more logical/less stupid argument would be that VA is substantially less blue than CA.

[swf541]

One thing I do suspect (and suspected even before this) is that 2022 will be absolutely devastating for blue state Republicans/red state Democrats across the board — I expect it to be an incredibly polarized straight-ticket midterm like no other before. This result also points to such an environment.

Yea I agree with this take

I think VA gov is going to be a route via the same basis