Posted on 11/09/2010 4:26:38 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
DWAYNE BROWN (Host): Most results are in, but the race for California attorney general may not be decided for weeks. We're joined on Morning Edition by nonpartisan Sacramento political consultant Leo McElroy. Republican Steve Cooley, Leo, leads democrat Kamala Harris by about 41,000 votes in the attorney general's race. What's at stake?
LEO MCELROY (Political Consultant): Well, there are a couple of things at stake. For one thing, Cooley pretty much becomes the state-wide leader of the republican party if he manages to win because the republicans got shut out in every other race. So Cooley suddenly becomes a giant hope for the party. The other thing is a lesson in political arithmetic, that's kind of fascinating, usually you look at these things and you say OK, these votes are going to be democratic when they come in, these votes are going to be republican. LA is usually a source of democratic votes. In this particular case, it doesn't work out that way because Cooley is really well-known in LA being district attorney there. So both he, counting on his home town to support him with votes, and Kamala Harris, counting on LA as a source of democratic votes, have been really watching the LA returns which have been pretty slow coming in. There's a lot of breath being held in this race at this point cause it is really too close to call.
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The Republican nominee ,the LA County DA, has regained the lead. Maybe California won’t be a total loss.
Who cares about his Zodiac sign?
The reason for our disastrous showing in California for the GOP can be attributed to one thing... Ah-nold. Just imagine if he had been the Conservative he acted like he was gonna be (for which yours truly knew was a giant steaming load from the get-go). Shouldn’t be surprised at all at the wipeout.
The Gubernator never began to stand up to the liberals who control California’s public life. Supporting him is by far the worst political call I’ve ever made.
Some of the biggest dissapointments this year were the defeats of Van Tran, Charles Djou, and Joseph Cao. Demographics matter, regardless of the year.
There’s a lot at stake here. The AG is very powerful and can have enormous consequences on the people. Think of Harris as 10x worse than Holder.
Weeks to decide this thing? It takes that long to run votes off a copier? Where do the Dims recruit their ‘talent’?
So this is rather unusual. Near the end of November 2nd, Cooley had given up his early lead and slipped behind Harris by about 40 thousand votes, so I figured it was all over. Now this article says that he has regained the lead by 41 thousand votes. Furthermore, today's update from the Secretary of State's office shows Cooley's lead is now up to 51,439.
Not only is the trend in Cooley's favor, but a 51 thousand vote margin will be difficult to overcome.
“Think of Harris as 10x worse than Holder.”
She alone would sink what is left of California all by herself. She will harass the remaining business with environmental laws and who knows what else. Business will be forced to leave the state or close up shop.
Cooley ran ahead of the rest of the Republican ticket in Los Angeles County.
They still have 1.3 million votes to count.
I expect that this thing will be up and down for another week, at least.
I had hopes for Cooley precisely because he was “well known” in L.A. I’m glad to see he’s still in the hunt.
He tried, at first, to bypass those numb nuts but was handed losses by the voters and neutered thus he became "Davis light" for political survival.
For Dems there may have been some extra motivation against the Tea Party movement elsewhere.
We're back to an all Dem gov't with nearly two-thirds supermajorities in both houses of the legislature. It's like Grey Davis (Brown's old chief of staff) all over again. CA voters (really L.A. voters since SF is never not gonna go Dem) may just be stuck on stupid.
Harris has pulled to within 9000 votes of Cooley.
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