[Poohbah]

The problem is that the "Christian Right" in California is extremely gullible. They will believe that some unemployed Greyhound bus driver and party that they've never heard of will somehow prevail in a district that is (barely) majority Democrat. (No kidding, that's who the American Independent Party ran in my district in 1996.)

[Carry_Okie]

The problem is that the "Christian Right" in California is extremely gullible.

I think it a symptom of having been screwed so many times. They are desperate for someone to believe in. They are simultaneously all too ready to believe that anyone who would claim such status is a fraud.