Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Super Tuesday in a Nutshell

The main news out of Super Tuesday was that Nikki Haley won Vermont, while Donald Trump won everything else in the GOP primary.  If you were a Republican candidate for President and were told you got to pick one state to lose, chances are good you'd pick Vermont. 

Vermont has few electors and always votes progressive anyway. Giving it up would be like giving up something you hate for Lent, an entirely empty gesture. Especially since crossover voting permitted mischievous Democrats to vote against Trump in the GOP primary without changing their party registration.

Bottom line: Vermont means very little to Republicans in the same way Wyoming means little to Democrats.

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The other interesting thing is that Steve Garvey and Adam Schiff ended up winning spots on California's senate ballot this fall. Garvey is a Republican and they normally don't do well in CA's "jungle primary."

Perhaps it means a non-trivial number of Californians have gotten fed up with the ugliness of life in a woke one party state? I hope so. That is the only way CA gets back on a sensible track.

I'd really like CA to get its act together and become a place normals can be comfy. When the DrsC get too old and shot-down to commute between two places, ideally our year-round place would be in CA.