Republicans in CA don’t run to win elections. They run to become influencers, conservative news hosts or join the current administration.
I’ll believe a California Republican is actually trying to win election when they stop going on Fox News all the time.
Was the spencer pratt thing ever a real phenomenon or just coastal conservatives trying to wishcast it in existence? He's basically just performing how you would expect a generic republican to in LA
@TylerDinucci Advertising rates for PACs tend to be 2-3x rates candidates pay, FCC also has a public file of all advertising invoices.
Could just use current airtime reservations of the pacs and normalize them to get an estimated effective CPM?
CA’s isn’t as drastic as VA’s. You could theoretically draw a full D or 51D-1R map for CA but they didn’t do that. Makes it seem less extreme
The No campaign gave up. Basically stopped spending in September.
Newsom/Dems pitched Prop 50 as a tit for tat with TX. Harder for VA
Why did CA’s redistricting referendum perform so much better than VA’s? CA is much bluer obviously but even taking that into account, CA’s did way better
Ossoff: Remember, while you pay more for everything, the first family’s wealth is growing by billions of dollars because they are crooks, and everybody knows it.
@DrewSav In order to do that he’d actually have to acquire some convictions and not just be playing the independent card in an obviously self-serving attempt to game the system.
Doesn’t matter. Wont make it past the primary as an NPP anyway even if he was sincere.