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Related: About this forumDemocrats brace for potential California disaster
Still, Democrats have little room for error in California. The party in 2012 suffered a stunning defeat when two Republicans finished ahead of then-Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar in an Inland Empire congressional district in which Democrats held a voter registration advantage.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/15/california-democrats-disaster-2018-ballot-465460?lo=ap_a1
Unbelievable.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...with a SHAKER of salt. Politico's purpose is to make money via clicks to their hyperbolically titled "news stories." Further, their slant is often Rethug-leaning.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)BUT, I do hope the Dems take control of the situation and everybody rallies behind one candidate.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)There is a real fear here we will split the votes and let Rocky Chavez in.
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)is anything being done about it by the leadership?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Greater than average republican turnout. I dont think 2018 can compare to 2012.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)Too many people running.
Too many people who think democrats are too establishment
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-democrats-narrowing-house-fields-20180224-story.html
here is how many new dems or as I call them "progressives" are running, and BOY is it a problem
#CA01 4
#CA04 4
#CA08 3
#CA10 6
#CA21 1
#CA22 3
#CA23 4
#CA25 5
#CA39 9
#CA42 2
#CA45 4
#CA48 8
#CA49 4
#CA50 3
THIS is what happens when people are sold a line of BULLSHIT about purity and about how the Dem party is too corporate.