Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor

Re:Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor by eplanit on Saturday January 14, 2017 @08:00PM (#13401671)

California has no electoral college, so conservative voices aren't muted in state elections as they are in Presidential elections (but they're still a minority in the coastal counties).

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Re:Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor by jaredsohn on Saturday January 14, 2017 @08:12PM (#13401725)

I don't understand this. For both the California vote in the presidential vote the winner for state-wide elections (i.e. senate and governor) it is winner takes all.

Where you could see the difference would be in the California assembly and senate and at the federal level in the House of Representatives since that depends on how districts are defined.

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Re:Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor by __david__ on Saturday January 14, 2017 @08:13PM (#13401731)

> But they're still a minority's in the coastal counties.

I.e. Where the people actually live. The only real big metropolitan area that isn't coastal is Sacramento.

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Re:Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor by batbomb on Saturday January 14, 2017 @08:13PM (#13401735)

No state uses an electoral college to elect governors.

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