[ElkGroveDan]

As I understand it, the northern part of the district will favor Brown

No the far north is good. It's just Nevada County where the hippies and counter-culture people all moved. They haven't historically voted much historically. But as a friend put it ACORN people came in this year and "pulled them down out of the trees." There was some labor activism up around Lake Tahoe where many of the casino employees from Nevada live.

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Yes ElkGroveDan, I'm from Tahoe and South Lake Tahoe has a large liberal malcontent population that moved up here form the Bay Area. Nevada County has Nevada City, which is now filled with alternative types who are outnumbering the good native Republicans that grew up there. I have my hands full here in South Lake Tahoe, but I'm very vocal in countering the liberal gibberish that comes out of my local paper.