rowe33
3224
I can’t see how anyone with a brain could continue to support any Rep or Senator that favors Trump. The guy is such a disgrace to the country and humanity in general.
BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A. BEAT L.A.!
God dammit people.
18.5% turnout here in LA.
So mad right now.
Everybody was busy watching the Lakers in the … oh, wait; no they weren’t.
rowe33
3228
That’s all voters though, right? It could be a severely depressed Republican turnout. Maybe. Hopefully? As long as all the good guys vote this November, we’re set.
81.5% of voters in LA are republican?
“A republic, ladies, if you can keep it.”
rowe33
3231
No, just hoping the drop off is more due to Republicans not turning out than Democrats. What was LA in 2014? Maybe 25%? Maybe that 7% drop off is made up of more Republicans than Dems.
magnet
3233
You shouldn’t really compare primary turnout to general election turnout, the latter is always higher.
In California, turnout was 23% in the last mid-term primary (2014).
rowe33
3234
I believe that pic is comparing the primary turnouts with the prior primary turnouts, not the general. I’m trying to maintain some faith in humanity that enough people will turn against the ridiculous regime in place right now.
All those election dates are in June (except for Feb 2008) which is the traditional time for California primaries.
Who knew that 80+% of CA voters aren’t concerned about Trump enough to make sure that Democrats run good candidates.
Dave47
3236
Is LA done counting their votes? In SF the big story is how close the mayor’s race is, given how many votes still remain uncounted. Many Californians vote by absentee ballots, which take longer to tabulate, and which may not have even arrived yet: they must be postmarked (not received) on election day.
rowe33
3237
Yeah, there’ll probably be a lot more that won’t be counted for a few days still.
I dunno. Is turnout such a big deal in a primary (assuming you don’t live in a district where Dems could be locked out)?
I didn’t vote in my primary (East Bay Area) because there is literally zero chance in my district of any kind of upset or lockout and primaries are boring. My rep (Mark Desaulnier) cruised to the nomination against the local sacrificial Republican who will probably not manage more than 35% of the vote in the real election. Add to that the lack of any particularly contested or important propositions meant why bother?
Turnout is actually…quite large.
Good, I’m happy the initial reports are wrong. As to why you vote, cause I think you should always vote. As a practical matter, I want every Trump supporting Republican (which at this point is almost all) to spend every day from now until Nov. living in fear that massive wave of pissed Americans are going to appear at the ballot box and take back our country.
A new NBC poll shows that the counter-intuitive idea - breathlessly promoted by the media at every opportunity - that it would be a colossal strategic mistake for the Dems to make 2018 election about Trump is counter-intuitive because it is, you know, wrong:
By a whopping 25-point margin, voters say they’re more likely to back a congressional candidate who promises to serve as a check on President Donald Trump, according to a new national poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
And by a similar margin, they say they’re less likely to vote for someone who has supported the president on most issues.
