Republicans are guilty of premature celebration when it comes to California primary election results.
Yes, Republican Steve Hilton leads the governor race, and would advance to the actual election by finishing first or second. And Republican Spencer Pratt is running second for Los Angeles Mayor, which would advance him to that general election.
But, in California, where they apparently rely on pointy sticks and wax tablets — and perhaps the odd abacus — to tabulate elections, final results are not due until perhaps July 4.
Also, Democrat election analysts are holding out hope all those mail-in ballots, that will pour in now that the election day is complete, will elevate the challengers to Hilton and Pratt. Why no one asks for an explanation of why mail-in votes run about 99-1 Democrat is beyond me.
Hilton, with just over half the anticipated votes counted so far, is tracking at 27.6 percent and his closest challenger is at 25.5. It would not surprise me if a Biden-like tsunami of mail-in ballots pushes Hilton down to second.
I do not consider it cynical to ask aloud why the mail-ins always seem to be sufficiently Democrat to overcome any deficit once most of the election-day voting numbers are known. Given a target, they hit it.
Back to Los Angeles Mayoral politics, leftist incumbent Karen (Rhymes With Ass) Bass is leading, with Pratt second and yet another raging leftist, call her Ramen Noodles, trailing badly.
All this despite Bass fiddling in Ghana while LA burned, despite her presiding over lawlessness and encouraging illegal immigration, despite her questionable people skills which included having a person on her staff who got convicted of calling in a fake bomb threat to City Hall.
Oh, and Bass has repeatedly been linked to Chinese intelligence.
Fair-minded Los Angeles residents, be they legal or illegal, seemingly are willing to overlook all that in the pursuit of more crime, more filth, more illegal immigrants, more fires and more dysfunction.
Outgoing Governor Gavin Newsom is Bass on a statewide scale, with greasier hair. He likely would be winning again were he not term-limited. In a common sense world, considering Newsom’s record of failure, Hilton would be winning huge against the Lilliputian field Democrats have thrown into the race.
These include a billionaire who is finding – again – that money can’t buy him electoral success, or a typically overweight female screamer known for dumping scalding mashed potatoes on her hubby and at various times berating her staff, those tongue-lashings having been caught on video to her ever-lasting regret.
Overly optimistic Republicans are indulging in wet dreams over the unlikely daily double of taking the California governorship and the LA mayoral office.
Cool your jets, guys and girls.
Add up the vote totals for all the Democrat candidates in these bloated primary fields and you get numbers that dwarf the totals of Hilton or Pratt.
Those people who voted for the losers this time will come out for the next election, voting for the candidate with the letter D following his or her name. They won’t even pause to ask themselves if they want the state to continue its lurch toward third-world status.
That mob of the blindly allegiant will be plenty to get the job done. But, just to be sure, the Democrat vote harvesting machinery will be working harder that John Deere combines at harvest time in the midwest.
It was nice that Hilton and Pratt have had some time in the spotlight to draw attention to the numerous shortcomings of California Democrats – why should the California type be different from Democrats across the land?
But, to truly expect Hilton or Pratt to win the big one is to show the same sort of naive, innocent faith that allows children to believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, and President Trump to believe he can make a deal with the theocratic lunatics running Iran.
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