Commentary
What was expected to be a relatively boring election in California turned out to have several surprises.
1. Turnout was just 16.3 percent, according to the Secretary of State’s website. That was way down from the 2020 primary’s 47.9 percent, when Democrats were voting for their nominee for president and actually picked Bernie Sanders over Joe Biden, 36 percent to 28 percent.
Or even from the previous gubernatorial primary, in 2018 at 37.5 percent. Although that time Democrats were picking a new nominee for governor, with Newsom beating former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa 34 percent to 13 percent. Republicans even had some hope, with John Cox finishing second in the Top Two system, at 25 percent, even though he ended up being defeated badly that November….