SO NOW WE HAVE SOME MEANINGFUL NUMBERS

By Bob Walsh

 

 

It is 0600 on Wednesday as I bang this out.

CA Proposotion 50 passed by about 63.8% to 36.2% with about 7.5 million total votes cast.  It was the only state-wide question on the ballot.  I confess I hoped it would be more narrow than that, though the fact that it won does not surprise me at all.

Mamdani the Commie won the NYC mayor's race with 50.4% of the vote.  Even if Sliwa had dropped out and all his peeps had voted for Cuomo Mamdani still would have won.  

Sherrill got the governorship in New Jersey by 56.2% over Ciattarelli's 43.2%.  I had thought that would be closer than it was.  Quite a lot closer actually, although again the fact that the Democrat won did not surprise me at all.

Spanberger captured the Virginia governor's race with 57.5% over republican Winsome Sears 42.3%.  That is another one I both thought and hoped would be closer.

The evil psychopath Jones manged to take the Virginia attorney general's race by 53.1% over the republican Miyares who garnered 46.5%.  I really both thought and hoped that contest would be closer.  The voters in Virginia are just as tribal as anywhere else I guess.

The Democrats will attempt very hard to spin this as an anti-Trump referendum.  They will have a significant amount of success with that.  This also means that Gavin Newsom will be pretty well solidified as the functional head of the Democrat party.  His significant win with Proposition 50 will give him that mantle in the absence of anybody else of note doing anything worth while.

Trumps yelling about voter fraud in CA will not, IMHO, be helpful.  Of course there was SOME voter fraud.  There is always some voter fraud.  There were NOT 3 million fraudulent votes cast in CA.  There just weren't.  If Trump looks petty and petulant it will NOT help his position or the position of the Republican party.