Opinion: State and local election results suggest moderate voters strengthening, extremists in Democratic Party weakening
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On X, Lance Christensen (former CA Policy Center VP of Education Policy and Gov’t Affairs) sees a vibe shift in the results from the most recent election, which minimizes the power of the far-left in the Democratic Party.
… I've traveled the state extensively speaking to hundreds of thousands of people since 2022 & have found that California voters aren't as progressive as people think. We have a range of beliefs on the left, but it's not as wide a chasm as the vote totals over the last 20 years suggest.
I increasingly believe that we have a very vocal superminority of radical progressives that scream so loudly about everything & louder about a few things, that the people in the middle just want to be left alone, so they capitulate hoping that throwing the progressive dog a bone will mean that it stops barking...except it doesn't stop barking.
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