Ro Khanna to launch new campaign against Mike Honda (D-Calif.) on Saturday
Source: San Jose Mercury News
As Ro Khanna launches his second campaign to unseat fellow Democrat Rep. Mike Honda this Saturday, Silicon Valley voters might wonder what will be different this time around.
Experts say it could be very different indeed, thanks to a larger, more diverse electorate and hard-learned lessons from 2014's costly and often nasty showdown. Khanna lost a bruising election by 3.6 percentage points, nipping at Honda's heels as the incumbent held on for an eighth term.
"The biggest difference is that it's going to be a presidential election year, so voter turnout would be higher," said Melinda Jackson, a San Jose State political science professor. "It's always tricky when you've got a Democrat-on-Democrat race ... but my instinct is that a higher voter turnout will help Khanna because he will be able to appeal more to independent and Republican voters."
... Khanna and his supporters will launch his campaign at 11 a.m. Saturday with a rally at Santa Clara City Hall on Warburton Avenue. Honda "welcomes the challenge and believes his long history of serving the district honorably and with principle will outweigh the determination of the wealthy interests backing his overly ambitious challenger," Honda campaign spokesman Adam Alberti said Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_28192678/ro-khanna-launch-new-campaign-against-mike-honda
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Actually, the higher turnout could help Honda by bringing more liberal Dems to the polls. Repukes generally have a much higher turnout by percentage, which is a big reason the country is in the mess it is.
And who says Ro even gets to the runoff? Maybe we could find another moderate Dem who would appeal to the same voters, but not be as obnoxious.
That'd be a sure way for him to be "one and done". 
he could jump into the clown car. 
