Weird Voting in California

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Dec 20

Like her sister states on the left coast, Washington and Oregon, California is a hard-core reliably Democrat state.  There have been no Republican state-wide office holders in Californian in a couple of decades.  Both Senators are Democrats, along with the governor and both houses of the state legislature.  California contributed Hillary Clinton’s ultimately unavailing majority of the popular votes in the 2016 election.  Fox News called California for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and for Joe Biden in 2020 within seconds of the closure of the polls.

The Democrat governor and Democrat mayor of Los Angeles have been heavy-handed in their dealing with the pandemic.  Homelessness in the state got really bad the last few years, especially in Los Angeles and San Francisco.  The business district of Santa Monica was destroyed by Antifa and BLM rioters in July.  The governance of California has been so incompetent the last four decades that despite an idyllic climate, the state has suffered a net loss in population the last decade.  The loss is primarily of the middle class.  In short, the political conditions are such that one would expect the results of the 2016 election to be maximalist for the Democrats, especially when the prospect was of the first woman as president and a progressive to boot.  Joe Biden in 2020 was the old, white establishment man who didn’t campaign and whom nobody respected.

The results of 2016 quite unsurprisingly favored Hillary Clinton.  She garnered 8,753,788 votes, compared to Trump’s total of 4,483,810.  Third party candidates split approximately 821,000 votes among them.  That differential between Hillary and Trump of 4.4 million votes provided Hillary with her margin of the popular vote in the 2016 election.  In 2020, however, Trump increased his vote total to 5,994,679, but Joe Biden increased the Democrat nominee’s total to an astonishing 11,098,676.  Meanwhile, the vote total of third party candidates dropped to 239,000.  Trump increased his vote total by 34 percent between 2016 and 2020, Joe Biden the Democrat nominee’s by 27 percent, and the third party candidates lost 71 percent.

The election in California was marked by numerous, astonishing, spontaneous displays of support for Trump completely unconnected with his campaign.  Republicans ordinarily hide their political affiliation out of fear of reprisal in that state, but this election found them downright assertive.

Trump’s surge in 2020 California presented no danger to Hillary’s margin of 2016.  No one expected California to flip to Trump.  All the polling showed Trump and the Republicans to be way behind Biden and the Democrats.  So, what explains the rise by 2,345,000 votes of Democrat support for Biden – after Trump increased his total by 1,513,000 votes?  The collapse of third parties could only contribute 582,000 votes.  Where did the addition 3.3 million come from?  Where are all these voters coming from, in a state with a falling population?

The Democrat total of 2016 ought to have been a maximum for 2020.  Nobody cares about Joe Biden as compared to Hillary Clinton.  I get that Trump both creates enthusiasm among supporters, and sparks active hostility among others.  But is the hostility so much greater in 2020 than it was in 2016?  Didn’t Californians hold Trump in complete contempt the first time?  Why would so many more people complacent in 2016 come out to vote against Trump in 2020 after all the disincentives from the Democrat side?

And why, in the face of the upsurge for Biden, would the House of Representatives see more Republicans elected from California in 2020 than in 2018?  Okay, Trump has coattails and Biden doesn’t, but why would a Democrat voter vote only for Biden for president and not vote for the Democrat House Representative further down the ballot?  Were those addition millions of Biden ballots marked with his name alone, and no one else’s?

The corruption of California’s election system is legendary, and explains why it is a Democrat one-party state.  California has legal vote-harvesting!  This time, they had mail-in ballots as well.  In order to maintain a substantial Democrat majority in the presidential popular vote nation-wide, running votes exclusively for Biden would accomplish that without touching House races and raising unnecessary suspicion thereby.  Running Biden votes wouldn’t change anything nationally, since Biden was going to carry California anyhow; it would only ensure a Biden majority in the popular vote.  Nevertheless, Trump supporters during the campaign felt their own strength, regardless of the impression the public (i.e. suppression) polls was trying to make.

The creation of well over two million votes for Joe Biden alone in California could have been an effort to hide the Democrat voter fraud going on in other states.

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