About this 85+% reelection stat that they keep quoting for Brown..

[Skidmore]

How many people do you know that mark down for a judge on the ballot and don't know a blessed thing about them beyond the fact that they haven't heard anything bad about them? This stat is bogus.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. I believe she was the only person running in that race.

And the actual stat was 76%, if I'm not mistaken.

[ComerPerro]

3. Exactly. She was uncontested

[Inland]

2. I'd like to see the CA ballot she got this percentage on.

I bet it was tweny pages long and her election was buried so far back that only the fundies and organized right wingers found her.

[mandomom]

4. Uncontested cannibalization

of our American way of press reports. How many times will we hear GOPers announce "she won 80% of the vote" and NOT ONE SO-CALLED REPORTER bothers/dares/dreams to mention that she was uncontested? The line should be, "she was the only candidate for the judgeship but 20% of Californians chose NONE OF THE ABOVE. Why was that? We can show you why."