Pratt falling in Los Angeles tallies
I couldn’t resist a pun for the title of this post. But the content is no joke. We all knew that the vote counting in California is very very slow, and that there’s a history of it turning towards the left as it goes on and if there’s a hint of someone on the right doing relatively well.
Does that mean there’s cheating? Maybe. There’s certainly a strong desire to win coupled with a less-than-convincing devotion to assuring that the will of the voters will be carried out no matter what the outcome. The mail-in ballots that can come in late, the drop-boxes, the rabid leftist partisanship, all combine to create at the very least a lack of trust in the system on the part of anyone on the right.
And so it was almost a foregone conclusion that this would be happening, and that it would seem suspicious whether it is or not:
… [T]he race for second place in the mayor’s contest is moving in a direction that should concern Spencer Pratt supporters, and anyone who thinks Los Angeles needs to move toward a more centrist, common-sense course.
Friday afternoon’s update added roughly 140,000 ballots countywide, with about 42.7% from within the city of Los Angeles.
Mayor Karen Bass remains firmly in first place with 34.98% of the vote. The real drama is the battle for the second runoff spot between Pratt and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman. …
Raman gained 23,115 votes in Friday’s update, compared to 10,711 for Pratt and 20,419 for Bass. In a single ballot drop, Raman netted 12,404 votes on Pratt. …
Put another way, she received more than twice as many votes as Pratt in this batch.
The upshot is that Pratt may fall to third place as more votes come in. And if he’s in third, he won’t be on the ballot. California’s voting system is designed to give voters a November choice of leftist and more leftist, rather than Democrat and Republican. But realistically, even if Pratt holds onto second place, at present he is only getting about a quarter or third of the vote compared to a combined Democrat/leftist vote that constitutes a definite majority.
Why anyone would vote for Bass or Raman is beyond me. I understand that Democrats will vote for Democrats. But these two have had their chances and have failed to help the city. If I lived in LA, I think that even if I were a Democrat I’d give Pratt a chance.
LA, and California continue to circle the drain, just like Seattle, Chicago, the list goes on.
They’re not voting for a person, they’re voting for a figurehead to preside over a system of patronage that is largely unelected. Pratt will not be in control of that system even if elected, but he can damage it, and most Angelenos who are going to vote do not want that system damaged even if it doesn’t deliver the results they want, they can always blame Trump or a handful of Republican kulaks and wreckers.
The fact that neither pratt nor hilton are accruing any votes is the evidence of fraud as in 2020
Those who are benefiting from the grift of the 400 hospices the train to nowhere. The road bridge the gender treatment clinic
Those that have to navigate the fentanyl the armies of homeless and thieves
Well they are outvoted
Niketas:
Why wouldn’t most Angelenos want that system dismantled? Are the majority of the residents beneficiaries of it? I understand why the beneficiaries would want it continued, but are there that many?
I think most people just vote reflexively without knowing why or playing real attention to much of anything.
Cheating, they are. There is no maybe.
I suspect the citizens of LA think things are just fine, because that is what they are told. I am also certain there is cheating, it is the Democrat way.
I didn’t think Pratt would prevail, but I do hope he has started a trend.
Voting will not save us !
No Comment, No Hope
Accruing only half of the votes