Posted on 11/29/2016 11:21:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It took three weeks to confirm it, thanks to California’s excruciatingly slow ballot counts, but Darrell Issa will return to Congress in January. Democrats had targeted his seat in order to push out one of the most conservative Republicans in the House, and to send a message to Barack Obama’s critics. Instead, Issa managed to eke out a narrow win over Doug Applegate in the toughest race of his career.
Note, though, the way the Associated Press leads this story as it calls the race for Issa:
The wealthiest member of Congress is keeping his job.
Republican Darrell Issa narrowly defeated Marine-turned-lawyer Doug Applegate after a bitter contest in in the 49th District north of San Diego.
Unofficial returns Monday showed Issa holding a 2,348-vote edge, with only a small number of votes left to tally. Vote-counting extended for weeks after the election as officials tallied late-arriving mail ballots and those filled out at polling places.
That’s the big takeaway — that Issa’s the wealthiest House member? Yes, I’m sure that’s why Nancy Pelosi had Democrats target him. She’s worth an estimated $100 million, a figure that has grown rapidly over the last few years. How many leads from the AP on Pelosi stories start off with that factoid? Or how about Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), whose net worth on this list outstrips Issa’s?
That aside, Issa had better be prepared for tough races in the future. The current Cook Partisan Voting Index rating for CA-49 is R+4, but a growing Hispanic community in San Diego’s northern coastal region will keep presenting more challenges. In his previous four runs, Issa never scored below 58% of the general-election vote. This time he barely got a majority in the state’s single-pool primary over Applegate and independent Ryan Glenn Wingo, which presaged this close general-election outcome.
Applegate has yet to concede the race. He could ask for a recount, but the 2,348 vote gap is too large for a recount to overcome. Besides, it took California this long to do the actual count — how much longer would a recount take? It’s more likely that Applegate will use his resources for another run at Issa, but the midterm turnout model should give the Republican incumbent a slightly easier run in two years. After that, the future looks murkier in this leans-GOP district.
Do I have to buy bleach? Just askin...
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Nah, nobody could get away with something like this. They would be in prison within months, certainly no longer than a year later.
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#34, SaveFerris.
I was getting ready to send you 10 million dollars but I noticed your post office box number was in the US, not Nigeria, so I thought you were a fraud.
I guarantee it will work. It’s based on a proven model!
What’s more, tens of millions of idiots will think you’re a victim!!
Now, we just need some liberal “cause” we can attach to you.....
Hang on ...... we can set up an account in Nigeria ....
Senior moment.
Some new site (I forgot which one) had MI, WI and PA in gray again because of the pending recounts.
None of those *already* there will have children? None of those who die will *continue* to vote?
More that are already in the states won’t move to that district?
Just wondering....
And creating a special election in a seat we almost lost = bad idea.
So I knew Janice Hahn retired from the House to run for the LA County Supervisor. What I didn’t know was that she won an open GOP seat.
The 5 member council will now have just 1 Republican member, Kathleen Barger, who succeeds veteran member Mike Antonovcih, who retired to run for State Senate, he lost.
But, he seems to be the only person in Congress who can ask a well phrased question and a probing follow up. Both sides should have to spend a week prosecuting cases in municipal court to learn how to ask a simple question and get an answer. Its embarrassing.
Wow! He won despite a lot of illegals voting. Impressive.
I still want Tancredo for AG.
Here is the latest results:
http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-rep/district/49/
WAY too close for comfort.
Filthy state. The keep pulling ballots out of their behinds. Pushing Shillery to 2.5 million up in the popular vote. Reducing Trump’s % in CA to a breathtakingly low 31.67%
Big change in the Orange county numbers, now it’s Shillery by 8.5 points, IIRC it was half of that before. OC also had a major dem shift in late counting after 2014. Big Shilly shift in San Diego too.
These numbers are helluva suspicions.
I call bull$hit on CA’s votes outright. I hope President Trump has Attorney-General Sessions sic the entirety of the Justice Dept on the state.
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