Live Thread - California General Election - 7 November 2006

[CounterCounterCulture]

Welcome to the live thread for the California Primary Election. Polls are open until 8pm tonight. If you are a registered voter, it is your duty to vote and defend your rights and civil liberties, protect your pocketbook, and vote the bums out where applicable.

Feel free to discuss issues key to your local area that others may be interested in. Post your polling place experiences if you like. And post numbers as they come in later tonight.

[calcowgirl]

I don't think its over yet. There is still San Berdu, Orange, San Diego, etc. There aren't that many voters in Monterey county.

[calcowgirl]

This one has gotten a lot closer. (Daucher--The CA GOPs multi-million campaign investment)

State Senate District 34

42.7% ( 161 of 377 ) precincts reporting as of Nov 8, 2006 at 12:03 am  
  
  Candidate            Votes  Percent 
  Lou Correa (Dem)    21,679  47.1 %  
  Lynn Daucher (Rep)  24,298  52.9 % 

[newzjunkey]

It's very hard to believe Tom's internals could be so very far off. I haven't give up yet.

I'm greatly disturbed to discover I may well have been too optimistic about our chances in CA. It's simply chilling.

[rivercat]

There's still over a million votes left to count in LA county though...

[backtothestreets]

Don't fret the apparent gap that just opened for Garamendi. Santa Cruz just jumped into the fray reporting about 70% of their precincts in one lump sum. We were not expecting Santa Cruz anyway.

[ThomasThomas]

Any absentee ballot dropped off today will not be included in count till the signature is checked. Some of these really close votes could take a few days. The are allowed 28.

[rom]

I will cross my fingers and hope for the best. Today (now that it is past midnight) is my 3rd wedding anniversary and I have a busy day ahead with the missus. So I will be saying good night to you all.

We may have had a temporary setback this election, but life's not all bad. After all I have had 3 good years with my wife and am looking to many, many more!

I'm sure all of you are blessed in similar ways!

Good Night to all!

[backtothestreets]

Happy 3rd Anniversary to you and your wife!

[Constantine XI Palaeologus]

Yep, I had no clue they had so many precincts.

[calcowgirl]

LA is really starting to come in now. They went from 16% to over 50% reporting, and the result shows!

Lieutenant Governor
66.3% ( 16630 of 25090 ) precincts reporting as of Nov 8, 2006 at 12:08 am  
  
Candidate Votes Percent 
  John Garamendi (Dem)         2,264,332    48.3 %  
  Tom McClintock (Rep)         2,167,393    46.2 %  
  James D. King (AI)              36,977     0.7 %  
  Donna J. Warren (Grn)          125,394     2.7 %  
  Lynnette Marie Shaw (Lib)       75,322     1.7 %  
  Stewart A. Alexander (PF)       22,489     0.4 % 

[calcowgirl]

NJ... look at the numbers when this is all over. The conservative candidates were starved of money by the party. They were shunned by the "leader" of the party--publicly. Don't be so surprised. Look at the energy that went into supporting the bonds (and undermining any opposition). Where there is a will, there is a way. Unfortunately, our own party "leaders" have chosen a much different path for the State, one that will continue big spending and cronyism and has no problem leveraging every dang asset to put us into megadebt.

[AVNevis]

LA County is killing Tom. We will see how bad it gets after that county is done with and the other conservative strongholds start to come in.

[goldstategop]

The reason Arnold bucked the tide is he successfully painted himself as anti-Bush liberal with a R beside his name. Other Republicans have not benefitted from his coattails - which appear to be non-existent.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[TrojanConservative]

San Bernardino is still at 0% and San Diego is still under 50. Hopefully those will serve to counter Los Angeles.

[Constantine XI Palaeologus]

Yeah, the support he gave them was really heartening./digusted sarcasm

[calcowgirl]

[Troublemaker]

San Bernardino numbers....

McClintock 98,308
Garamendi 76,160

this is w/ all precincts in - straight from the S.B. county website. I don't think a 22,000 advantage is going to help much vs. LA County :o(.

[Constantine XI Palaeologus]

No! Most of the Bay Area's only in the mid-50s (as is LA). :(

[calcowgirl]

County	Precincts	Precincts Rpt'g	% Rpt'g	Reg'd Voters	Ballots Cast	% Turnout	Latest Report	Report Type*
Monterey	184	0	0.00%	145,540		0.00%	8
Nevada	101	0	0.00%	63,174	14,360	22.70%	8:30pm
San Bernardino	975	0	0.00%	751,652	81,086	10.80%	9:02pm
Tehama	47	6	12.80%	29,422	6,511	22.10%	10:15pm	R
San Mateo	518	152	29.30%	350,427	83,594	23.90%	11:30pm	R
Yolo	146	55	37.70%	90,695	23,798	26.20%	11:39pm	R
Imperial	146	58	39.70%	52,930	15,554	29.40%	11:58pm	R
San Diego	2,211	1027	46.40%	1,381,835	318,768	23.10%	12:05am	R
Sonoma	470	243	51.70%	234,891	95,912	40.80%	11:42pm	R
Inyo	27	15	55.60%	10,769	3,471	32.20%	12:07am	R
Los Angeles	5,028	3000	59.70%	3,914,138	1,198,021	30.60%	12:24am	R
Ventura	550	332	60.40%	391,077	61,437	15.70%	12:13am	R
Orange	2,054	1276	62.10%	1,497,365	424,992	28.40%	12:03am	R
Riverside	1,282	855	66.70%	754,986	120,179	15.90%	11:12pm	R
Alameda	1,219	830	68.10%	678,765	218,473	32.20%	12:16am	R
Santa Cruz	317	218	68.80%	142,415	53,755	37.70%	12:00am	R
Fresno	680	475	69.90%	331,968	88,827	26.80%	11:41pm	R
El Dorado	150	107	71.30%	101,036	42,586	42.10%	11:51pm	R
Modoc	20	16	80.00%	5,559	3,191	57.40%	10:05pm	R
San Joaquin	777	622	80.10%	270,356	82,377	30.50%	11:48pm	R
Contra Costa	1,032	864	83.70%	486,441	208,556	42.90%	11:43pm	R
Santa Clara	1,244	1049	84.30%	749,866	307,032	40.90%	11:57pm	R
Humboldt	152	130	85.50%	77,903	36,578	47.00%	11:24pm	R
Mendocino	208	181	87.00%	47,825	10,588	22.10%	11:24pm	R
Sierra	23	21	91.30%	2,219	1,294	58.30%	9:13pm	R
Sacramento	970	887	91.40%	624,444	226,152	36.20%	11:48pm	R
Kern	605	571	94.40%	289,233	117,949	40.80%	12:01am	R
Glenn	33	32	97.00%	11,861	6,752	56.90%	9:58pm	R
San Francisco	580	574	99.00%	418,285	168,922	40.40%	10:33pm	R
Alpine	5	5	100.00%	775	556	71.70%	11:41pm	F
Amador	59	59	100.00%	20,119	13,939	69.30%	10:38pm	U
Butte	175	175	100.00%	115,659	53,793	46.50%	12:09am	F
Calaveras	30	30	100.00%	27,048	15,556	57.50%	10:40pm	F
Colusa	17	17	100.00%	8,178	4,682	57.30%	11:05pm	F
Del Norte	18	18	100.00%	12,040	6,123	50.90%	11:17pm	F
Kings	39	39	100.00%	45,539	21,248	46.70%	12:05am	F
Lake	52	52	100.00%	31,564	15,939	50.50%	11:27pm	F
Lassen	35	35	100.00%	14,314	7,787	54.40%	8:52pm	F
Madera	105	105	100.00%	50,066	26,063	52.10%	11:40pm	F
Marin	210	210	100.00%	147,311	76,238	51.80%	10:52pm	F
Mariposa	21	21	100.00%	11,251	7,233	64.30%	11:09pm	F
Merced	114	114	100.00%	93,728	38,579	41.20%	11:35pm	F
Mono	13	13	100.00%	6,418	3,835	59.80%	10:45pm	F
Napa	115	115	100.00%	66,148	30,513	46.10%	12:05am	U
Placer	365	365	100.00%	177,539	93,956	52.90%	11:35pm	F
Plumas	29	29	100.00%	12,789	8,452	66.10%	9:48pm	F
San Benito	57	57	100.00%	24,585	9,758	39.70%	11:59pm	F
San Luis Obispo	164	164	100.00%	155,495	81,290	52.30%	10:49pm	F
Santa Barbara	351	351	100.00%	183,890	96,417	52.40%	12:11am	F
Shasta	138	138	100.00%	89,409	47,139	52.70%	11:08pm	F
Siskiyou	87	87	100.00%	24,968	13,702	54.90%	10:46pm	F
Solano	233	233	100.00%	163,235	65,941	40.40%	12:21am	F
Stanislaus	439	439	100.00%	207,162	81,454	39.30%	12:11am	F
Sutter	68	68	100.00%	39,071	18,102	46.30%	10:28pm	F
Trinity	23	23	100.00%	7,899	5,613	71.10%	8:54pm	F
Tulare	257	257	100.00%	134,923	53,258	39.50%	10:44pm	F
Tuolumne	76	76	100.00%	32,251	18,876	58.50%	10:08pm	F
Yuba	46	46	100.00%	26,657	10671	0.4	11:55pm	F
Statewide	25,090	16,937	67.50%	15,837,108	4,947,428	31.20%	12:24am

 

 

* Report Type: R = Regular, U = Update, F = Final

[calcowgirl]

Those are the percentage vote breakdowns of the votes counted thus far--not the totals.
They will change as more votes are counted.
See the status chart of precincts reporting that I just posted.