[conspire] Postal voting, continued.

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):

> Anyway I think most of us were relieved when the recall results were reported.  
> A couple weeks ago, I drove down I5 and saw a lot of signs promoting the recall and one specific candidate.  Very different from the media messaging we were seeing in the Bay Area.

As you may recall, on my election analysis pages
(http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/vote.html), I confine my personal opinions
_almost_ entirely to the "RM partisan analysis" paragraphs under each
votable item -- the part where I hold forth on how I'll personally be 
voting and why.  And a little bit more personal analysis follows the
"Outcome" item (that still being insider the "RM partisan analysis"
bloc, basically).  Here's what I added this morning on Q1:

  Outcome (Sep. 14, 2021 preliminary results):

  Yes: 34.6%
  No: 65.4%%

  _rout (n.):_ beating, defeat, drubbing, licking, loss, lump, overthrow,
  plastering, shellacking, trimming, trouncing, whipping, blowout,
  cakewalk, landslide, romp, runaway, sweep, walkaway, walkover.

  _rout (v.):_ annihilate, blow away, bomb, bury, clobber, cream, drub,
  dust, flatten, paste, shellac, skin, skunk, smoke, smother, snow under,
  thrash, trim, tromp, trounce, wallop, wax [slang], whip, whomp, whop (or
  whap), whup, sweep, upset, beat, best, conquer, dispatch, hurdle, lick,
  master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), subdue, surmount,
  take, throw, triumph (over), win (against), worst, crush, knock off,
  knock over, overpower, overthrow, overwhelm, subjugate, upend, vanquish,
  ace (out), better, eclipse, exceed, outdistance, outdo, outfight,
  outshine, outstrip, overtop, surpass, top, transcend, edge (out), nose
  out, pip [British], cap, excel, flourish, score, succeed, break,
  destroy, do in, finish, sink, slaughter, beat the pants off, eat alive,
  run circles around (or run rings around), wipe the floor with (or wipe
  the ground with).


  It seems fair to say that this decisive trouncing, where Newsom won by
  an _even higher margin_ than his 2018 historic 24-point drubbing of John
  Cox, proves Californians endorse Newsom's strong COVID-19 response and
  also utterly reject Mr. Elder's Trumpist demagoguery.

  Remarkably, the CA GOP seem likely to respond to their party's abject
  failure by doubling down, and running Mr. Elder _again_ against Newsom in
  2022's regular gubernatorial election.  We live in interesting times.
  Another takeaway lesson is that California's remarkably large (and
  growing) 24% of voters registered NPP (no party preference) includes
  many _ex-Republican moderates_, driven out by extremist takeover of that
  formerly sane and competitive party.  Thus CA GOP's now-shrunken 24%
  share:  The rump party remains held captive by wackos, and thus no longer
  able to compete statewide, only locally within the "reddest" regions.

  CA GOP folks:  You might have beaten Newsom, if you'd only had the common
  sense to rally behind Faulconer, thus appealing to NPP and moderate
  Democratic Party voters -- as you did with Gov. Schwarzenegger.  If your
  slide towards irrelevance continues, remember this election as one of
  your biggest missed chances.


In the listing of the entire clown car or 46 candidates, I had pointedly
called out the two specific ones who were honest-to-Ghu _Domininists_
-- but today realised many readers wouldn't know what that term means
and why it's a red flag.  So, I linked that term to RationalWiki's page,
which as usual is clear and more vivid than Wikipedia's:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dominionism

I recommend it, as the snark is strong in that wiki, and tends to make
me laugh hard (as did this entry).