McClintock Ping List.
Please freepmail me if you want on or off this list
Posted on 11/22/2008 1:19:11 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
State Sen. Tom McClintock on Friday surged to nearly a 1,800-vote lead in the tight congressional battle against Democrat Charlie Brown, perhaps sealing victory in the foothill 4th District.
"We're not claiming victory, but we just think it's mathematically impossible for (Brown) to win," said Bill George, spokesman for McClintock.
George said the thousands of Placer County votes tallied Friday stretched McClintock's lead from barely 300 votes to 1,793, with only about 4,500 more votes to count in the nine-county district.
Brown spokesman Todd Stenhouse said Brown would not concede, noting that thousands more votes remain to be counted, most of which are provisional ballots that "have been breaking very, very strongly for Charlie."
"We remain committed to the same goals that we've been committed to all along, and that is that every vote is counted in this historic election," Stenhouse said.
County election workers throughout the district have been verifying and counting late-arriving absentee ballots and provisional ballots since the Nov. 4 election.
McClintock has never trailed as the daily tallies have been added to the total, although the margin has waxed and waned.
After Placer's votes were counted Friday, McClintock held a lead of 183,489 to 181,696 over Brown, George said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Coleman next. Winners coming home to D.C.
Excellent news from California.
Looks like Lucy pulled the football out from Charlie Brown again!
; )
Not true. Maybe in Nevada County, but in the rest of the district they have been breaking at a rate similar to the overall election - 50/50 with a slight edge to McClintock. 2100 of those left are in El Dorado County which had a significant lean toward McClintock.
McClintock Ping List.
Please freepmail me if you want on or off this list
And how come McCotter isn't on those lists?
It seems we may have some McBias going on.
He in effect declared victory yesterday:
Dear E-Team:
More than 4/5 of the uncounted ballots in this race were announced today, boosting our lead to 1,793 votes, or 0.49 percent. There are less than 4,100 ballots yet to be counted - all from counties that we carried with between 51 and 53 percent - and Charlie Brown would need to receive 71.9 percent of the remaining ballots to overtake our current lead.
We are told to expect the final tallies from the counties still outstanding to be announced by early next week, and I expect to be making a formal statement then. For now, I think we can safely say that the fat lady is singing - and she’s singing our song.
My sincere thanks to the hundreds of volunteers and donors whose time and resources made it possible to assure the fairness and accuracy of this vote. I will have more to say next week, but for now the most appropriate - though completely inadequate - words I can offer are THANK YOU.
Sincerely,
Tom McClintock
I assume its because he’s not in the media spotlight. But I agree, he should be in consideration. I’ve heard good things about him and I would love to see him take over as leader in the house over Boehner (however you spell it).
McClintock has always been more of a Lone Wolf type, like Tancredo.
Finally McClintock has his foot in the door. But it’s so tiny. Representing 1/53rd of the state is not a good stepping stone for governor (or senate), but I’m thrilled he won the seat.
Agreed. But you have to be a Lone Wolf in the Calif statehouse surrounded by socialists. McClintock may be quite a leader in Washington though. There are at least a few more Conservatives there. We'll see.
Tom McClintock was the only state legislator wanting to address the pending state budget deficit even during the Gray Davis recall. Chet 99 is correct in calling him the Lone Wolf, since all the other members of the state senate and assembly were ignoring the problem, or otherwise sticking their heads in the sand, or some other part of their anatomy. He called each budget an unrealistic sham detailing the errors and bad assumptions, and attempted to bring sanity to the state finances, but his voice was always drowned out by his bloviating colleagues.
If I remember correctly, Tom McClintock ran against Arnie Schwarzenegger as the Republican candidate for governor during the Gray Davis recall. Had McClintock won, the state would not be in the mess it’s in now.
Based on observations, McClintock is a good man; honest and forthright, and perhaps a little outspoken. But do we not need some politicians that are willing to speak out and be honest with the people?
The question reminds me of something about the bear and the woods. ;-)
I hope to shout!!! I found out a lot about the actual perceptions of conservatism in several of my friends in this election, especially during that awful primary with Ose!!!
At least in our CA Primaries we don't have cross-over voters screwing with the outcome like some of these more easterly states!!!
If we could retain partisan purity in these national Primary election contests for President, we would NEVER have ended up with a John McLost!!!
This is also why I felt that Rush was so prescient with his "Operation Chaos" as a means of fighting back against this deliberate corruption of Pary Primary elections!!!
It is the very end. There are no surprises and very few votes left. Tom has an insurmountable lead, and the only formality left is for him to be officially certified as the winner. That will happen in the next week or two.
It just got better (Saturday afternoon).
El Dorado just counted another 1780 ballots. These were provisionals and overseas (students not just military), mostly crappy stuff.
Tom went down 227 votes so now he leads by 1566. But the good news is that there are only now 2300 or so ballots left district wide and Brown would need 84% of those to pull even with Tom. Of those 2300, 1600 are in Butte County an area that Tom carried handily on election day.
I'm embarrassed for you Wasp.The implications are on the verge of being a giant whopper.
Please explain to the newbies just how closed the CA Republican primary process can become. How a clearly liberal candidate could survive primary vetting in a state where the party rank and file are as conservative as they come.
I wouldn’t want him to leave congress for a what would likely be losing bid for higher office. I’d like to see him in the House GOP leadership.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.