Also decided to see how Chen did, seems like he really did improve his post primary vote share by a decent amount. Currently losing by a tad under 11. Basically there seems to be little no overperformance of Dahle in Inland counties but he did improve in coastal/bay area counties . The biggest overperformance of Dahle seems to be actually San Francisco where he nearly doubled Dahle's vote share from 14.6 to 24.1. He still overperformed in Coastal Socal by a few points but not by much.
There's a scattering of SF precicnts in the SW and SE which are the most Asian along with the Marina district where Chen got to the lower 40's.
I remember hearing the argument that people should vote for Chen because it's better to have a member of the opposite party in a non-policy setting auditing role. No idea how many votes that swayed but it's food for thought.
That is a really bizarre argument. How is the minority party supposed to be auditing/holding accountable the majority in the House? The House is simply not set up that way.
Lanhee Chen ran for state controller . Its a pretty decent argument and Chen did win every newspaper endorsement . Iirc the Dem was of fairly poor quality as well.
