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CA: State Dems failing to gain congressional seats (No Obama coattails,, awwwwwww...)
SFGate.com ^ | 11/5/08 | John Cote

Posted on 11/05/2008 8:20:52 AM PST by NormsRevenge

SAN FRANCISCO -- Democrats across California looking to leverage President-elect Barack Obama's popularity into historic gains in Congress and the state Legislature seemed likely to fall well short of their goals.

Democrats had targeted six congressional seats throughout the state held by Republicans. Winning those races would have given Democrats 40 of the state's 53 seats in Congress - unprecedented success since redistricting in 2000 virtually guaranteed both parties safety in districts they held.

But partial returns late Tuesday showed Republicans with commanding leads in five of those races, with the sixth contest nearly a dead heat separated by less than 200 votes.

"Gerrymandering works," said Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College. "This is what happens when politicians pick their voters, instead of the other way around."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; coattails; congressionalseats; failing

1 posted on 11/05/2008 8:20:56 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Thank God for something positive in Kalifornia government.....there is not much.


2 posted on 11/05/2008 8:22:51 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: NormsRevenge

The McClintock/Brown race remains undecided.


3 posted on 11/05/2008 8:26:03 AM PST by Clintonfatigued (If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

McClintock up by 400+ votes with 100% counted. Only late absentee votes still left.

Looks like Tom wins!!!


4 posted on 11/05/2008 8:30:03 AM PST by CaliGangsta
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To: NormsRevenge; calcowgirl; ElkGroveDan; Grampa Dave; tubebender; hedgetrimmer; forester; ...
The SOS announced McClintock the winner by around 450 votes according to KFBK in Sacto this morning. Tom said "I knew it was going to be close, but not THAT close!"

So I had at least one piece of good news to cling to bitterly this morning!!!

In other news, the world's two most powerful cities, Washington DC and Sacramento CA are now headed for African-American titular leadership! What a joy this will be!! Affirmative action can now be ended and talk of reparations as well!!!/s

5 posted on 11/05/2008 8:37:56 AM PST by SierraWasp (Welcome to the USSA on it's way to join the third whirled in mutual misery!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

So I take it Duncan Hinter’s son retained that seat?


6 posted on 11/05/2008 8:40:25 AM PST by Rockitz (NObama 2008- Strange we ain't believin')
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Drudge and Novak has this..

NOVAK: No mandate for Obama, no lopsided Congress...
http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/1260688,CST-NWS-novak05.article

re: Congre$$ and Obama’s coattails effect

DEMS +17 HOUSE...

DEMS +5 SENATE...

It could have been a lot worse with Hillary running, imo.


7 posted on 11/05/2008 8:40:43 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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Oooops......Hinter = Hunter ;o)


8 posted on 11/05/2008 8:41:15 AM PST by Rockitz (NObama 2008- Strange we ain't believin')
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To: SierraWasp

There were no coat tails because most of the fraudulent ACORN voters were for president only. This way if they mixed them up and sent some Ohio votes to Indiana they might have gotten caught. Of course they didn’t know getting caught would be no big deal.


9 posted on 11/05/2008 8:42:10 AM PST by Terry Mross (It's just a matter of time before we will no longer be allowed to post.)
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To: NormsRevenge

We had an open seat for Congress in our district. When McCain and Palin came through, they had the republican candidate as part of the intro team. Obama and Biden? Nope, no time for the democrat running to participate.


10 posted on 11/05/2008 9:33:14 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Jimmah Carter cubed. Obama, the only man in America who can make Hillary Clinton look good.)
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To: SierraWasp

Good...and prop 8 seems to have passed...


11 posted on 11/05/2008 10:03:26 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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