I missed this one last night: DDHQ projects Steve Hilton wins the second of two spots in the CA Governor Primary

[In It to Win It]

Decision Desk HQ projects Steve Hilton wins the second of two spots in the CA Governor Top-Two Primary

#DecisionMade: 8:37 PM EDT

— Decision Desk HQ (@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social) 2026-06-09T00:38:30.721Z

Decision Desk HQ projects Xavier Becerra as one of two winners in the CA Governor Top-Two Primary

#DecisionMade: 8:58 PM EDT

— Decision Desk HQ (@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social) 2026-06-05T01:05:36.680Z

[ck4829]

1. The hotel guy?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. British political adviser turned radio/podcast idiot in the USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hilton

I said a couple of weeks ago that government press chief Malcolm Tucker got all the best lines in The Thick of It. But this week, with the welcome return of the opposition, Stewart Pearson (Vincent Franklin) – the herbal-tea drinking, bearded, shaven-headed, cringingly Cameroonian spin doctor – rather puts him to shame.

Stewart is perhaps partly based on David Cameron's marketing guru Steve Hilton, who has supposedly voted Green at past elections and for a sustained period supervised the Tory leader's progress from an eyrie in California, where his wife worked for Google.

Stewart's primary job seems to be to remodel unreconstructed old Tory Peter Mannion (Roger Allam) in the leader's image, and this he does by assaulting him with a relentless barrage of horribly believable modernising buzzwords: "I like the plasmic nature of your data modelling" … "Let's imagineer the narrative" … "What's the weather like over at the Guardian? How do we counter-massage?" … "fractal retaliation" … "badissimo" ... "Knowledge is porridge."

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2009/nov/14/the-thick-of-it-series-3-episode-4

[underpants]

2. That'll take care of all the conspiracy theories

[stopdiggin]

3. this is pretty much the way the race looked all along

it was just a matter of how long it would take for people to start making a 'call' on it. So .. guess we have finally reached that point - about 6 days in. (which - to my mind - is not so terribly onerous)

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[SSJVegeta]

5. I predict this wiĺl be their 4th incorrect call..fatally so

[Brother Buzz]

6. In other reporting, Becerra has the lock, but...

Hilton, despite being ahead of Styer, does not have the mathematical lock…..yet.

[Initech]

11. I'm seriously worried that if Hilton is anywhere close in the GE, Trump and Musk will fuck with the results.

And if Becerra wins, there will be a path to a recall election almost guaranteed. Someone talk me down from the ledge.

[Brother Buzz]

13. There are 58 county Office of Registrars, all with closed systems isolated from the internet doing the tallying.

I totally trust California to return an honest count.

Recall? Let’s cross that bridge when we get to it.

[Initech]

14. OK I definitely trust my state to do the right thing!

[jls4561]

7. As a Californian, I would vote for Lord Buckethead before I'd vote for Steve Hilton.

Of course, Lord Buckethead would have to have a “D” after his name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buckethead

[Initech]

8. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Fuck you Steve Hilton!

[SSJVegeta]

9. He still might lose

Ddhq has made 3 wrong calls in its lifetime. I predict this week be their 4th.

[Initech]

10. Fingers crossed!

I am so worried that if it's even remotely close, Trump and Musk will find some way to fuck with the election results if Steve Hilton is on the ballot. And if Becerra were to win, I'm worried that a recall is almost guaranteed. I hope I'm wrong.

[SSJVegeta]

12. Oh it is going to be super close and at this point their BS conspiracy theories will come no matter what happens

Par for the course for these jerks