Ultraconservative Steve Poizner is currently in first place in the Insurance Commissioner race. He changed to an independent to run for a second, non-consecutive term. I wonder if not having the party label may result in an R pickup.
He's not even close to ultraconservative lol. He's really moderate.
he only got 41% of the vote. He'll be the best performing "conservative" on the ballot and he'll probably still lose by 9 or 10.
heres his map from 06
he's definetly demonstrated his ability to win in blue wave years I wouldn't count him out just yet
lol he ran against Cruz Bustamante, who has a unique record of blowing almost every race he's ever run, and California has become a lot more Democratic since 2006 (fun fact, Democrats gained more seats in 2012 than they did in 2008, which was a much better year for Democrats nationally, and while the rest of the nation got swamped in 2014, Democrats GAINED a seat in California)
And he out-performed every single Republican on the ballot to get... 41% as the only center right candidate and the combined Democratic vote still ended up beating him by double digits. Poizner might close that gap some but I doubt he's going to even get within single digits.
If he had received 45-46% of the vote yesterday i would've paid attention.
Which kinda became a Pub-mander sometime around 2006 when California kept getting blue. Similar to how NJ has transitioned from a pub-mander to a dummymander. This is the main reason for some , but not all, of the dems house gains in CA in 2012.
