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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by Apocryphon on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:38AM (#35449749)
Though apparently, neither in the case of the election of Boudin, nor in his recall!

https://ballotpedia.org/District_Attorney_election_in_San_Fr...

https://ballotpedia.org/Chesa_Boudin_recall,_San_Francisco,_...

Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by shuckles on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:41AM (#35449784)
Yes, even in that case. In a ranked choice election, you cannot simply look at the numbers in isolation. The opponents to Boudin ran something of a slate where they cross-promoted each other. So in a real sense, Boudin won despite being outspent in 2020. (Though there is a compelling case to make that Boudin's victory was mostly a fluke due to Nancy Tung's Cantonese language voters being misled by local Chinese-only newspapers about policy positions.)