I’ll just add that none of the other major Dem-aligned candidates were “unelectable.” They were very good and qualified, and in a race where only three of them were running, would’ve done better. The field was just spread too thin, even disregarding the 18 or so candidates who had zero chance of getting more than a few hundred votes. It …
I’ll just add that none of the other major Dem-aligned candidates were “unelectable.” They were very good and qualified, and in a race where only three of them were running, would’ve done better. The field was just spread too thin, even disregarding the 18 or so candidates who had zero chance of getting more than a few hundred votes. It helped GOJ (and Pablos) to have a ton of PAC money behind them — I got so many more mailers from GOJ’s campaign than any other, by far. I’m not saying anything bad about GOJ here — just that it’s not that the other major candidates inherently had no chance. Gina’s resources allowed her to drive up name ID and break apart from the pack in a big way, but that wasn’t a given / it’s not that she was obviously a better candidate from the beginning and the others just decided to run because why not.
I’ll just add that none of the other major Dem-aligned candidates were “unelectable.” They were very good and qualified, and in a race where only three of them were running, would’ve done better. The field was just spread too thin, even disregarding the 18 or so candidates who had zero chance of getting more than a few hundred votes. It helped GOJ (and Pablos) to have a ton of PAC money behind them — I got so many more mailers from GOJ’s campaign than any other, by far. I’m not saying anything bad about GOJ here — just that it’s not that the other major candidates inherently had no chance. Gina’s resources allowed her to drive up name ID and break apart from the pack in a big way, but that wasn’t a given / it’s not that she was obviously a better candidate from the beginning and the others just decided to run because why not.