[giotto]

If you add up the total votes cast for Democrat candidates in the governor race, it comes to 1,040,000. The total number of Republican votes was 1,073,000.

I don't know if that means anything, but I can hope.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

It means the Republican base was motivated.

Gerry Brown ran virtulaly unopposed so a lot of Democrats probably didn’t bother to cast a vote for governor. With Brown guaranteed to win the Democratic nomination, I am sure some Democrat voters didn’t bother going to the polls.