Posted on 11/09/2010 6:11:00 PM PST by Calif Conservative
Attorney General, 2 House races still razor-thin
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It’s sad. I looked back at the 08 results to see if anything changed...turnout this time was very low but that didn’t necessarily cost Harmer. McNerney had about 2x as many votes last time around, yet we still couldn’t dump him. Also, in 08 there was no meaningful 3rd party drain...elfin AIP ass hats.
I wonder how many of them were FReepers.
Also, turnout was higher in 06 in CA-1..people sat out this year but more McNerney voters did so compared to before. Opportunity lost.
For better or worse, 3rd parties won’t be appearing in the CA general election in the future thanks to the prop passed in the summer that lets only the two top vote getters from the primaries in the general.
1964????
I think Harris (the Dems) is even to insanely liberal for CA. Sort of like Angela Davis running the insane asylum.
I don’t know much about Harris, but Davis has been a university professor for decades. And yes, asylum does just about cover it. ;^)
I hope that Steve Cooley wins. I have met Steve Cooley on several occasions and he is a very nice man. I still have his business card
Cooley is presently up 43,200.
He will win. He was a great DA in Los Angeles. Very nice man.
I listened to an interview with him by the Babe in the Bunker, SF talk radio, the Sunday before the election. I liked him, too. Very impressive.
BUMP
Those people make me sick.
Ronald Reagan:
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it."
"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything."
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average."
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it."
>But of course the greedy/vain bastards that run the AIP will never do so because they would rather get lots of confused people signing up to swell their ranks than get a true accounting of their support.<
welcome to the big leagues.
Glad to see there's still a tinge of purple here in California. Just spent a week with my family in the Royal Blue Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The only positive thing there is that the sales tax is less (6.25 vs. 9.25). This was offset by the absolute lunacy of the people of that state who think that anyone who isn't "progressive" should be shot.
I have NEVER, EVER seen such vitriol in one group of people towards another. It was like living in a walking DUmmy convention. Berkeley is a bunch of right-wing nuts compared to the people of Massachusetts.
LOL. Wasn’t some progress made in Massachusetts this last election? I thought the right had some victories there.
A little at the local level, but all State and Congressional elections went bluer than the Na'vi, IIRC.
Okay, well sorry to hear it. I thought I had heard a report than some good things happened there. Oh well...
All three seats are currently held by DEM
AG:
Cooley-R +43,200
CD-11
McNerney-D +628
CD-20
Vidak-R +27
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