I looked at Waxman’s election history.
He was winning every two years by HUGE margins and suddenly in 2012 (even riding a huge 23 point Obama victory margin in California) barely won.
Anybody know the details there?
Somebody actually published a picture of Waxman in his district and it scared all the voters away.
The candidate running against him spent millions of dollars so he had a full-scale campaign operation going and air war (blanketing waves with ads like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCRIMVX30hQ - pretty good except the cheesy visual of him walking on the beach...)and he was an “independent” - so perhaps people in this liberal district weren’t as adverse to voting for him as they would have if he had “Republican” next to his name.