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She has a D after her name.

• _asummers 11y ago
  So do many people in California. And that's only relevant in a general election. Why hasn't she gotten a reasonable challenger in the primaries?
  • scurvy 11y ago
    Tenure and pork. Same reason Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond kept getting reelected when most of the population didn't like them. To paraphrase: she's a jerk, but she's our jerk.
  • justinlardinois 11y ago
    It actually doesn't matter at all, as we've done away with partisan primaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary#California_open_primary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary#Ca...