Go big or go home: How to run statewide in California when you’re not rich, famous or in office
Go big or go home: How to run statewide in California when you’re not rich, famous or in office
- May 23, 2018
- Graeme Boushey, poli sci, via CALmatters, May 23, 2018
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Graeme Boushey, a UC Irvine professor, is skeptical that clicks translate to success
at the ballot box. “There is a fetish of technology,” he said, “but what matters at
the end of the day is votes.” And in primary elections, when most voters are “brick-and-mortar,
high-turnout” partisans, candidates without major endorsements and third-party campaigns
face what he called “a very high barrier.”
For the full story, please visit https://calmatters.org/articles/how-to-run-statewide-in-california-if-not-rich-famous-or-an-incumbent/.
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