Elections are coming fast furious this year in San Mateo County. We just had a presidential primary. We’ve got two more primaries coming in April and June. Then comes the big general election in November. There is no rest for those who operate the election process here on the Peninsula. But there is plenty of down time for another aspect of politics in these parts: Meaningful debate. Discussions about policy and practices are strictly one-way. The county is a bonafide one-trick political pony. That’s because the Republican Party has become about as relevant as the rotary telephone. The GOP has slipped so far out of favor with the local electorate that it’s a mere blip on the radar screen. According to statistics provided by Warren Slocum, the county’s chief election honcho, there are 180,531 registered Democrats in the county. That compares to only 83,619 people who classify themselves as members of the GOP. What’s more telling, 81,628 say they are undecided and don’t list any party affiliation at all. It won’t be long before the undeclared outnumber those from the party of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. It makes for a mighty boring time out there in the public square. It is a routine fact of life here that every key elected federal, state and local official is a Democrat. Republicans are strictly MIA. Simply put, in this barren idea desert, there is no meaningful back-and-forth whatsoever.