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Local elections in SF are actually quite competitive, thanks to both jungle primaries and ranked choice voting. Of course, if you e.g. are a single issue voter

by sagarm 6y ago

Local elections in SF are actually quite competitive, thanks to both jungle primaries and ranked choice voting. Of course, if you e.g. are a single issue voter that cares only that women who has consensual sex not have the option to terminate unintended pregnancies you won't have a candidate to support in the general.

konjin 6y ago
>Of course, if you e.g. are a single issue voter that cares only that women who has consensual sex not have the option to terminate unintended pregnancies you won't have a candidate to support in the general. Who can I vote for to enforce copyright protection on my genes by forcing women to have abortions if they did not receive my permission to conceive?
rexarex 6y ago
Most City supervisors run unopposed due to the high cost to get on the ballot...
- GeneralMayhem 6y ago
  Well, that's just not remotely true. There are six supervisor seats up for election this year, as there are every even year. Ronen is running unopposed, which is a bit odd. The other five seats have at least 3 candidates each. I don't pay too much attention to Supervisor elections outside my district (which isn't up this cycle), but from glancing at websites and endorsements it looks like there's at least a few non-delusional competitors. And I recall D6 in particular was extremely competitive last time around, since it was a vacant seat after Jane Kim got term-limited out. https://sfelections.sfgov.org/candidates https://sfelections.sfgov.org/candidates EDIT: The Board of Supervisors also has a two-term limit, so even if you think incumbents are automatic winners (which they usually are - not usually unopposed, but, like most incumbents, I don't think they usually have to sweat it too much), there's going to be a competitive open-seat race at least once a decade.
  - sagarm 6y ago
    In the special election for D5, Preston won by like ~100 votes.
tathougies 6y ago
Honestly this attitude is exactly why sf is a dump. It's not about abortion. The chance of getting a conservative leader is impossible in sf. Luckily california may turn red this year due to the hispanic vote
- deleted 6y ago
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- GoOnThenDoTell 6y ago
  wut? https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/california/ https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/california/
  - TMWNN 6y ago
    California is not likely to vote for Trump, but he's going to do much better than the 31.6% he won in 2016. Nationally, he's going to do much better than the 28% of Hispanics he won in 2016.
  - tathougies 6y ago
    Have lots of hispanic family in rural california... I grew up in conservative california and when I visited this year... It's like I've never seen it. I don't believe the polls. Californians should actually go out and talk with the people who live in their state
tathougies 6y ago
Honestly this attitude is exactly why sf is a dump. It's not about abortion. The chance of getting a conservative leader is impossible in sf. Luckily california may turn red this year due to the hispanic vote.
SllX 6y ago
Competition between Democrats in the Generals each carrying water for the party does not make for competitive elections. Even the moderates in SF are to the left of the State and Country.
- conception 6y ago
  Moderate politicians of the world are to the left of the state and country.
  - SllX 6y ago
    Unfortunately for the world.
  - osobear 6y ago
    Depends on issue but usually no. Bernie Sanders would not be moderate in Europe, and mainstream Democrats (increasingly) would not be either.
    - TMWNN 6y ago
      I wish more people would understand this. Those (both American leftists, and Europeans who listen to them) who say that "Democrats in the US would be right wing in Europe/Canada" have to (for example) then agree that all major political parties in Canada and every European country outside the UK and Ireland are right of US Democrats, because there is no significant opposition to voter ID laws anywhere. Macron's Les Republicains got elected because voters liked his vow to get tough on unions and union pensions, and privatize more infrastructure, neither of which appears in Biden's campaign platform. Speaking of which, several European countries have privatized post offices; not just telecom companies that were parts of PTTs, but entire postal services. It is the rare European country that hasn't sold off at least part of their postal services. The EU explicitly requires postal monopolies to end in member states; whether government-owned or not, EU postal services do not have the USPS's monopoly on first-class mail. Yet no major party in the US seriously talks about privatizing the USPS.[1] Does this mean that American politics is "far to the left" of that of Germany and the UK, both of which have completely sold off their postal services to private investors? [1] 1 And no, it's not because of the Constitution. Article I Section 8 only gives Congress the authority "To establish Post Offices", as opposed to requiring a government-run one. Certainly nothing in the Constitution mandates the USPS's first-class mail monopoly.

by sagarm 6y ago

konjin 6y ago

>Of course, if you e.g. are a single issue voter that cares only that women who has consensual sex not have the option to terminate unintended pregnancies you won't have a candidate to support in the general. Who can I vote for to enforce copyright protection on my genes by forcing women to have abortions if they did not receive my permission to conceive?

rexarex 6y ago

Most City supervisors run unopposed due to the high cost to get on the ballot...

GeneralMayhem 6y ago
Well, that's just not remotely true. There are six supervisor seats up for election this year, as there are every even year. Ronen is running unopposed, which is a bit odd. The other five seats have at least 3 candidates each. I don't pay too much attention to Supervisor elections outside my district (which isn't up this cycle), but from glancing at websites and endorsements it looks like there's at least a few non-delusional competitors. And I recall D6 in particular was extremely competitive last time around, since it was a vacant seat after Jane Kim got term-limited out. https://sfelections.sfgov.org/candidates https://sfelections.sfgov.org/candidates EDIT: The Board of Supervisors also has a two-term limit, so even if you think incumbents are automatic winners (which they usually are - not usually unopposed, but, like most incumbents, I don't think they usually have to sweat it too much), there's going to be a competitive open-seat race at least once a decade.
- sagarm 6y ago
  In the special election for D5, Preston won by like ~100 votes.

tathougies 6y ago

Honestly this attitude is exactly why sf is a dump. It's not about abortion. The chance of getting a conservative leader is impossible in sf. Luckily california may turn red this year due to the hispanic vote

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GoOnThenDoTell 6y ago
wut? https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/california/ https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/california/
- TMWNN 6y ago
  California is not likely to vote for Trump, but he's going to do much better than the 31.6% he won in 2016. Nationally, he's going to do much better than the 28% of Hispanics he won in 2016.
- tathougies 6y ago
  Have lots of hispanic family in rural california... I grew up in conservative california and when I visited this year... It's like I've never seen it. I don't believe the polls. Californians should actually go out and talk with the people who live in their state

tathougies 6y ago

SllX 6y ago

Competition between Democrats in the Generals each carrying water for the party does not make for competitive elections. Even the moderates in SF are to the left of the State and Country.

conception 6y ago
Moderate politicians of the world are to the left of the state and country.
- SllX 6y ago
  Unfortunately for the world.
- osobear 6y ago
  Depends on issue but usually no. Bernie Sanders would not be moderate in Europe, and mainstream Democrats (increasingly) would not be either.
  - TMWNN 6y ago
    I wish more people would understand this. Those (both American leftists, and Europeans who listen to them) who say that "Democrats in the US would be right wing in Europe/Canada" have to (for example) then agree that all major political parties in Canada and every European country outside the UK and Ireland are right of US Democrats, because there is no significant opposition to voter ID laws anywhere. Macron's Les Republicains got elected because voters liked his vow to get tough on unions and union pensions, and privatize more infrastructure, neither of which appears in Biden's campaign platform. Speaking of which, several European countries have privatized post offices; not just telecom companies that were parts of PTTs, but entire postal services. It is the rare European country that hasn't sold off at least part of their postal services. The EU explicitly requires postal monopolies to end in member states; whether government-owned or not, EU postal services do not have the USPS's monopoly on first-class mail. Yet no major party in the US seriously talks about privatizing the USPS.[1] Does this mean that American politics is "far to the left" of that of Germany and the UK, both of which have completely sold off their postal services to private investors? [1] 1 And no, it's not because of the Constitution. Article I Section 8 only gives Congress the authority "To establish Post Offices", as opposed to requiring a government-run one. Certainly nothing in the Constitution mandates the USPS's first-class mail monopoly.