I realized yesterday that during the entire campaign season, I hadn’t seen a single sign, commercial or mailer for the Senate race (unless you count the “Please make your entire ballot look like this” cards that various groups send out). Hadn’t heard a radio ad. Hadn’t even received a robocall. Nothing for Feinstein. Nothing for Mountjoy. Nothing opposing either of them. If I hadn’t read the sample ballot, I wouldn’t have even know who the challenger was.
I can only infer from this that, at least in the LA/OC area (since we get the same TV stations), the race was presumed to be a slam-dunk and both candidates decided to focus their campaigns elsewhere. Either that or I really wasn’t paying attention.
(Similarly, in our House district only the Democratic challenger posted campaign signs, and the incumbent Republican still won handily. But then, this district has run Republican since dinosaurs roamed the Earth.)
Did anyone else see any serious CA Senate campaigning?
Jim’s of the other party so, yeah we received a few Dick Mountjoy, immigration cotrol officer for Senate flyers.
And a voting guide from the GOP stating, “Vote for Mountjoy, Ponizer, Poochigan, etc.”
But no mention that he was actually running against Feinstien. It was as though they were kind of hoping LA voters would forget that. I kind of miss the old days when Good Ol’ Dick would run for offices in Irvine and all his campaign signs would get stolen by college students.
I can just imagine guys posting those signs in their dorm rooms…
Not a peep.
Odd. I read somewhere that Mountjoy didn’t get much financial support from the party. They must have just figured they wouldn’t get CA no matter what they did, and cut their losses.
A “blue” vs “red” issue, you think? Or that they’d earmarked most of the funds to defend the Congressional seats, and didn’t feel that he had any chance at all?