Posted on 06/07/2006 2:40:21 AM PDT by RWR8189
A former Republican congressman narrowly beat his Democratic rival early Wednesday for the right to fill the House seat once held by imprisoned Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a race closely watched as a possible early barometer of next fall's vote.
Republican Brian Bilbray emerged victorious after a costly and contentious race against Democrat Francine Busby, a local school board member who ran against Cunningham in 2004.
With 90 percent of precincts reporting, Bilbray had 56,016 votes or 49.5 percent. Busby trailed with 51,202 votes or 45 percent. "I think that we're going back to Washington," Bilbray told a cheering crowd of supporters.
The race — one of dozens of election contests in eight states — was viewed by Democrats as an opportunity to capture a solidly Republican district and build momentum on their hopes to capture control of the House
"The blessing of Botox is that Ms Pelosi's face won't show the disappointment tomorrow."
That's funny....
Perhaps it is THE indicator for the upcoming November election.
Conservatives are mad right now- but they are not stupid.
Chances are extremely slim that Busby will pull off a victory in November.
This was it- the race to determine the future of CA-50
Great showing for Busby. Another important moral victory for the Dems. [/MSM Spin]
Only if the republican lost. This will be hardly mentioned and quickly forgotten by the MSM. But if the republican lost, then this would be front and center right to November.
The votes she lost by this comment were easily overcome by voter fraud in that district. Bilbray's victory with legal votes was probably more overwhelming.
You are right. Throw out the illegal Mexican alien voters and dead people votes the dems got and the GOP guy probably got 51, or 52%.
What platform did he run with? Pro-immigration or anti-immigration?
No MO' for the democRATS. How sweet it is.
The independent, endorsed by the Minutemen, received about 5% of the vote, which would probably have gone to Bilbray.
I think we need to see a series of colonoscopic articles about how Democrats are frittering away their chances for the House, etc. The McKinney, Jefferson, Busby (foot in mouth) sideshow may plunge the party even further into loser territory rathe rthan grabbing the brass ring.
Quite frankly I would think the liberals should expect, no demand, more than these idiots and/or crooks provide.
Beat her by 5 percentage points. Hardly a 'narrow victory'.
Of course, they usually go into bipolar optimism mode right before an election, anyway. It's so hard to tell.
Here's one comment from DU:
CA-50 was always a "safe" Republican district, but circumstances this time around (including polls last week showing Busby with a 5-7% lead) suggested that it might be different. Obviously, it wasn't.
My mother lives in an adjoining district (at times, she feels like she's the only Democrat there), and had been certain all along that Busby had no chance -- that, down there, most people might become disgusted by Republicans, but would never vote for a Democrat even so. Which is a problem, because we're going to have to win some of those districts if we're to have any hope of regaining even one chamber of Congress in November.
And that's what worries me...that, while we've all been reveling in Bush's plunging approval ratings, we've been assuming that someone angry at the Republicans is someone who will vote Democratic. And "it ain't necessarily so." It seems to me that, for too many people, the Republicans may mess things up, but the Democrats are so unimpressive, so irrelevant, that they aren't even worth considering, no matter how bad things get.
And I hope somebody in our Party knows how we can change that impression in the next five months....because I sure don't.
Yahoo was so desperate to come up with something positive sounding for the Democrats it was forced into describing the outcome of the Democrat primary with the most obvious headline of the year:
State wide polling was off too.
Last week one poll had Prop 82 slightly a YES vote.
Proposition - 82 Universal Pre-school - Ballot Issue
82
California 21328 of 23124 Precincts Reporting - 92.23%
Name Votes Pct
No 2,321,632 60.87
Yes 1,492,565 39.13
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