[heleny]

Mountjoy is a throw-away candidate. Both he and Feinstein are in their 70's and have little business running for 6 year terms! She'll probably get 65% of the vote even if she were to assume room temperature.

In her last election, the Nov. 2000 election, she got 56%.

* Dianne Feinstein           Dem   5,932,522   55.9 
  Tom Campbell               Rep   3,886,853   36.6 
  Diane B. Templin           AmI     134,598    1.2 
  Medea Susan Benjamin       Grn     326,828    3.1 
  Gail Katherine Lightfoot   Lib     187,718    1.8 
  Brian M. Rees              Nat      58,537    0.5 
  Jose Luis Camahort         Ref      96,552    0.9 

Boxer's a madwoman. We need a carefully selected candidate to face her. Sorry but Special K wouldn't stand a chance against her ruthless campaigning and mammoth war chest.

Yes, and hopefully we'll have someone more active than Bill Jones next time. Most of these 50th CD candidates seem to have worked harder for this special election than Jones did while running for Senate.

[newzjunkey]

I was exaggerating for affect. She's probably going to win by about the same margin just as Boxer did back in 2004. Turn out will really depend on the governor's race: will GOP stay home rather than vote for Arnold, will Dems come out in force to toss Arnold out? That could sway Feinstein's margin of victory over Mountjoy to even larger proportions.

Jones was a disaster. He didn't use his own money contrary to his promise in the primary, he was an ineffective speaker and had angered many Republicans / conservatives 1. by withdrawing his endorsement of W to endorse McCain in 2000 and 2. by authoring a huge tax increase as a legislator.