The LIVE California Primary Thread for March 2, 2004

[CounterCounterCulture]

The LIVE California Primary Thread for March 2, 2004

U.S. PRESIDENT- Republican
Bush, George W. (unopposed)

U.S. PRESIDENT- Democrat
Edwards, John
Kerry, John F.
Kucinich, Dennis
Sharpton, Al

U.S. SENATE - Republican
Ball, Danney
Casey, Toni C.
Hatch, Barry L.
Jones, Bill
Kaloogian, Howard
Marin, Rosario
Quraishi, Bill
Stewart, James
Van Zandt, John M.

U.S. SENATE- Democrat
Boxer, Barbara (unopposed)

PROP 55
Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2004.
YES NO

PROP 56
State Budget, Related Taxes, and Reserve. Voting Requirements. Penalties. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.
YES NO

PROP 57
Economic Recovery Bond Act.
YES NO

PROP 58
California Balanced Budget Act.
YES NO

+ tons of local races and issues

[LdSentinal]

Just about over. 20 precincts to go. Lungren holds a 765 advantage.

U.S. Congress District 3

96.3% ( 518 of 538 ) precincts reporting as of Mar 3, 2004 at 12:27 am

Republican

Thomas R. Oller - 26,081; 36.8%
Dan Lungren - 26,846; 37.9%

[Drago]

U.S. House District 3 Sacramento GOP - Primary

527 of 538 precincts - 98 percent

Lungren 27,578 - 38 percent
Oller 26,378 - 36 percent
Ose (i) 17,011 - 24 percent
Frankhuizen 1,309 - 2 percent

[Torie]

Howse ole Bob Dornan doin?

[goldstategop]

Amen. They've ran California for 46 years. They've outlasted the national Democrats who ran the House Of Representatives for 40 years.

[LdSentinal]

Doug Ose. He's retiring. A moderate Republican who had intended to run for the senate, but bowed out last May.

[Drago]

I am bored here at work wauting for the small counties to finish counting....I have live AP election wire on my desktop...anyone need any #'s??

[LdSentinal]

U.S. Congress District 46

63.2% ( 320 of 506 ) precincts reporting as of Mar 3, 2004 at 12:27 am

* Dana Rohrabacher - 47,493; 83.8%
Robert K. Dornan - 9,234; 16.2%

[null and void]

Dunno who's pulling the strings. Not sure I'd really want to know, unless there was something I could do about it.

[ArmstedFragg]

Here's where we stand:

55 is leading by roughly 80 thousand votes.

The significant counties still outstanding and their anticipated votes, assuming what's left tracks what's been counted are:

Alameda + 10,000
Contra Costa + 15,000
Kern - 2,000
Los Angeles + 7,000
Monterey + 2,800
Orange - 80,000
Riverside - 500
San Bernardino - Unknown, but hugely minus
San Diego - 10,000
San Joaquin - 900
Sonoma + 3,000

Bottom Line: It's going to hinge on the size of the margin in Orange and San Bernardino.

[LdSentinal]

4 precincts to go . . . 1,490 vote advantage . .. congrats to Lungren.

[Drago]

Proposition 55 Education Bond $12.3 Billion

17,839 of 21,796 precincts - 82 percent

Yes 2,409,455 - 51 percent
No 2,334,083 - 49 percent

[Positive]

B-1 is down 84% - 16%.

I live in Orange County but I'm not in his new district. He left his district to Loretta Sanchez and went against incumbent Republican Dana Rorhrbacher. Anybody know what his rational was? I never heard or saw a campaign ad.

[ArmstedFragg]

"anyone need any #'s"

Final Prop 55 numbers from Alameda and Contra Costa would be handy.

Last we had were at 83% and 60% respectively.

[LdSentinal]

2. But I think the key may have been talk show host Tom Sullivan on one of the biggest, most influential radio stations in the area endorsing and pushing Lungren on his show yesterday and today.

Interesting . . .

[Torie]

Dornan seems to be in a bit of electoral trouble, and this "early" point in the count. Maybe it is time for him to carpet bomb the hostile precincts.

[Positive]

"Final Prop 55 numbers from Alameda and Contra Costa would be handy."

Good observation - those are the only two Northern liberal counties with substantial votes yet to be cast.

Orange is starting to come in and San Diego is leaking in but San Berdu seems to be stopped...no AM tech support I guess.

[Drago]

From their website:
Alameda County Propositions
Total Precincts: 1096 Precincts Reported: 910 Percent Reported: 83
PROPOSITION 55 Yes 127254 60.5 No 83151 39.5
PROPOSITION 56 Yes 91864 44.0 No 116984 56.0
PROPOSITION 57 Yes 116412 55.4 No 93837 44.6
PROPOSITION 58 Yes 133750 64.0 NO 75083 36.0

My AP by counties is in Newpaper format and looks like gibberish to me:

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Here are the latest, unofficial returns from California by county in
the voting on the Proposition 55 Education Bond.
TPPRYesNo
Alameda 1,096910127,25483,151

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[Drago]

Proposition 55 Education Bond $12.3 Billion

18,448 of 21,796 precincts - 85 percent

Yes 2,460,897 - 51 percent
No 2,399,630 - 49 percent

[goldstategop]

Alameda is a liberal county and we can see Prop 56 going down!

[Prime Choice]

Where are you getting this info? It seems to be more recent than what I'm getting via vote2004.ss.ca.gov. Here's the latest from there:

81.2% ( 17701 of 21796 ) precincts reporting.

Prop 55 - Education Bond
YES - 2,362,674 (50.6%)
NO - 2,315,107 (49.4%)