What are your takes this Super Tuesday?
If you're reading this on Tuesday — Super Tuesday, that is, election day in these parts and in many states around the country — we need to ask you to keep your powder dry, answer-wise, until the polling results come in tonight. Or Wednesday morning, perhaps, in the case of tight races.
Because our Question of the Week involves what happens when the results are in: What are your thoughts about who and what won up and down the ballot on March 5, 2024?
Your answers could go from the very local to the highly national.
Were you surprised by anything at the presidential level, where President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump would seem to be the inevitable standard-bearers for the parties come November?
What about the results for California Gov. Gavin Newsom's state Proposition 1, which he touts as a big way to help both the mental-health and the homelessness crises in our state?
In the contest to replace longtime California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died last year, were there any surprises for you in the way that the leading Democrats — Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara
How to have your say:
Lee — placed in Tuesday's vote? Controversially, Schiff ads seemed to be touting leading Republican candidate Steve Garvey as his toughest opponent in an effort to set up a Schiff-Garvey Top Two race come November, knowing how many more Democrats there are than Republicans in California. Did that work out to Schiff's advantage?
When you voted, did you do so the old-fashioned way, by showing up at the polls on Tuesday and casting your ballot in a curtained booth, or did you take advantage of the mail-in options and fill out your ballot at home, and put it in the post? Do you think the universal vote-by-mail option created during the COVID-19 lockdowns is a good thing, or would you rather we go back to voters needing to show up at the polls themselves unless they will be out of town on election day?
What was the biggest surprise in the balloting?
What will happen in November in a Biden-Trump rematch?
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