Posted on 11/24/2010 3:31:32 PM PST by SmithL
Rep. Jerry McNerney has won his race to retain his 11th Congressional District seat.
The latest ballot-tallying updates from the most populous part of the district showed McNerney, D-Pleasanton, again had widened his lead over Republican challenger David Harmer to a margin of 2,475 votes, or about 1 percent of the 237,808 ballots counted. The Associated Press reported fewer than 1,900 ballots remained to be counted.
McNerney had declared victory Nov. 10, when he was up by 1,681 votes or about seven-tenths of a percent; Harmer has yet to concede, and recently attended the GOP's freshman orientation on Capitol Hill. Harmer's campaign spokesman didn't immediately return a phone call and an e-mail Wednesday afternoon.
Tuesday's updates from the registrars of voters in San Joaquin County -- which has the lion's share of the four-county district's registered voters -- and Santa Clara County showed Harmer lost ground in the former and made none in the latter.
San Joaquin County's results are final, leaving Contra Costa County with the only significant outstanding votes. Contra Costa County Registrar Steve Weir said Wednesday his staff is still counting write-ins and redoing provisional ballots that were cast on a ballot type other than what the voter was supposed to have used; he said he expects they'll be done Monday or Tuesday.
"This confirms what we knew -- Congressman McNerney has won re-election in the 11th Congressional District," spokeswoman Sarah Hersh said Wednesday. "Congressman McNerney looks forward to continuing to serve the people of this area, working to create jobs and standing up for what's right."
McNerney -- having secured his third term in the House of Representatives -- leads Harmer -- an attorney from San Ramon's Dougherty Valley area -- in Alameda County by about 15.5 percentage points and in Santa Clara County by 8.2 percentage points.
Harmer leads McNerney by 0.15 of a point in Contra Costa County and by 3.6 percentage points in San Joaquin County; that latter number decreased from a 4.3 percentage-point lead as of Nov. 10. San Joaquin County is also where American Independent nominee David Christensen fared best, with almost 7.1 percent of the votes cast; districtwide, he took about 5.2 percent.
Harmer sure could have used that 5+% which went to the AIP candidate. Was he that bad of a Republican?
Harmer is a GREAT Republican. He was the best candidate we have had in this area in years. Lazy, lazy Republicans didn’t bother to get off their duffs and vote, let alone come in and help us with phone banks and precinct walks. I am totally fed up with the Republican VOTERS. They are so lazy, they belong on welfare.
They just love their Rats in Mexifornication. When the SHTF then they get ALL the blame—not that it matters since lunatics aren’t swayed by logic.
Infuriated to read on a new site that Norm Coleman is telling Joe Wilson to give up, the race is lost.
GGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Sorry, make that NEWS site.
The Bay area is expected to lose one seat due to reaportionement and this seat which had already been turning blue would be be pushed further into the bay and almost surely be out of reach. It would of been nice tohave Harmer but it would likely only have been for one term.
Yep! Another example of "redoing" what the scumbagocrats do best...Their motto is: "We can negate any vote count short of a landslide."
Bummer I was hoping Harmer and Tranh would win.
McNerney is a prototypical zero. That CA elected him and all the other zeroes just means the descent will be that much quicker.
Who, or what is a better question, ws this stupid SOB? Who paid him?
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