Posted on 11/03/2009 4:34:01 PM PST by sportutegrl
Ah. I moved away in 2003.
May that occur sooner rather than later. ;-)
It was my understanding that the area has seen a massive influx of lefties moving out of San Francisco. The district went for ObaMugabe with 65%, and it pulled 65% for Feinstein, and even that nutball lib Boxer got 60%. The only “Republican” it supported was Scwarzenegger, and that was in 2008. Other than that, the district hasn't voted for a Republican since 1994 (the last time it went for Baker); it went for Tauscher in 1996 (though that was a close race). From 1998 on the district went for Tauscher by overwhelming numbers.
Tauscher has been essentially unopposed for a decade due to the Republican party’s refusal to support any candidate.
The district voted for Clinton for president, Gore for president, Kerry for president, and ObaMugabe for president. It also voted overwhelmingly for Feinstein and Boxer in their respective senate runs.
“Many of the dems are conservatives.”
I have relatives up there. (My anecdotal info. is based on a discussion with my wife’s cousin a few years back)
They may be conservaive dems, but they vote dem kneejerk fashion.
And the result is Bay area very, very liberal representatives.
I doubt they could bring themselves to vote for a republican.
I would love to be proved wrong.
With 51% of precincts reporting it looks as if Harmer will force a runoff with Garamendi.
“With 51% of precincts reporting it looks as if Harmer will force a runoff with Garamendi.”
Outstanding!!
The financial situation in California, compounded from year to year by the dems, should lead a rational person to want change.
That is how my mind would work, but I am not claiming to know inside the minds of democrats, if they have any.
If the district is filled with whiny socialists, let them forever lie in the beds of their own making. Perhaps experience will eventually teach them the errors of their ways.
Perhaps not.
“Winning” back the House, as if it's just some kind of silly sports game between two equally worthy opposing teams, is an infantile way of viewing our elected government.
RINOs and Democrats just adore voters who think elections are a “merely a game”. They also love the majority of eligiable voters who refuse to “play” anymore, and simply stopped voting at all.
You may not mind if the crazed inmates are running the asylum, as long as they are your “players”, but I do.
I don't think we are on the same “team”.
That's because there's no television in Cuba. Had to wait for Castro to broadcast. :-)
Thank you for pointing this out.
Where can I find a link to the results. Fox is not covering this despite having the original story.
California's Secretary of State isn't covering contest.
That was a good one...
Garamendi won 58% to 39%
Some people can’t be reformed.
Why should Californians want change? Everything is going so well out there.
I know... I live here.
Semi-Official Results
Congressional District 10
50.55% (138 of 273) precincts partially or fully reporting as of Nov 3, 2009, 10:16 p.m.
Candidate Votes Percent
David Harmer (Rep) 38,043 40.26%
Jeremy Cloward (Grn) 1,851 1.96%
Jerome “Jerry” Denham (AI) 1,155 1.22%
John Garamendi (Dem) 52,042 55.07%
Mary C. McIlroy (P&F) 1,405 1.49%
I TOLD YOU.
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