[iceemonster]

Hahn succeeded four years ago by knitting together a coalition of largely white, moderate-to-conservative voters in the suburbanish San Fernando Valley...

By "moderate-to-conservative," does that mean in this case truly moderate-to-conservative, or just in relation to what I'm sure is the heavily liberal core of the city?

[LA Conservative]

You are exactly right. Anything to the right of left wing becomes moderate-to-conservative.

King James will be in for a nasty surprise in the Valley since he put the kibosh on secession, and he is being sucked into the pay-to-play scandal.

I think the most moderate Democrat in this race is Hertzberg.