Posted on 11/07/2014 1:12:15 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
In Arizona’s 2nd District, the Republican, retired Air Force Col. Martha McSally, saw her lead over Democratic Rep. Ron Barber diminish after officials counted more ballots Thursday. She leads Barber by a 363-vote margin, with about 17,000 ballots outstanding. That lead shrunk from the 1,293-vote margin McSally had after Election Day.
In California, six races remain uncalled. Each county has their own process to count ballots, and it could be at least a week before winnere are declared.
Republicans lead in two of those contests: •In the Sacramento-based 7th District, former Rep. Doug Ose leads Democratic Rep. Ami Bera by 2,183 votes, with many ballots still outstanding. That lead diminished Thursday, when he had a 3,011-vote lead. Around 40,000 votes remain to be counted.
•Little-known Republican Johnny Tacherra leads Democratic Rep. Jim Costa by 736 votes in the 16th District — a race not on the radar of any party operatives. It’s unclear whether there are enough outstanding votes for Costa to overcome that margin.
Democrats lead in the other four contests: •In the San Diego-based 52nd District, Democratic Rep. Scott Peters retook the lead from Republican Carl DeMaio after mail-in ballots came in Thursday. Peters now leads by 861 votes. That is a big swing from after Election Day, when DeMaio led Peters by a 752-vote margin. More votes are expected to come in Monday.
•In the 9th District, Democratic Rep. Jerry McNerney leads Republican Tony Amador by a 2,360-vote margin in another unexpectedly close race.
•Democratic Rep. Michael M. Honda leads Democratic attorney Ro Khanna in the Silicon Valley-based 17th District by more than 4,000 votes — a widening lead giving Khanna a slim path to victory. Honda is slated to make an announcement about the race at 1 p.m. EST.
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Not to the state Senate, but Republicans elected two to the state Assembly. Diamond Bar City Councilwoman Ling Ling Chang was elected a vacant seat that’s safe for her party. She’s quite a looker, too.
http://thedbcf.org/?ch_staff=ling-ling-chang-2
Former Congressional aide Young Kim was elected to the state Assembly, unseating Democrat Sharon Quirk Silva with 57% in a race considered a tossup.
Thank you for the link, I’ll be posting that soon.
Damn! Ling Ling Chan is GORGEOUS.
I think the California Republican Party needs to really start sledgehammering the Democrats with Asian voters, go into the districts and make the case.
Side note: 17 hours ago, McSally only led Barber by 317 votes. Her lead has increased a bit.
“Diamond Bar City”. sounds like a strip joint.
The GOP chick is attractive though. Go get her DJSeamus!
Have you seen Elaine Chao (Mrs Mitch McConnell) - she is still good looking.
Especially for him.
There’s hope for you, Seamus!!! RUN! RUUUNNNNN!!!
Diamond Bar. That’s where ex-Congressman Jay Kim (1st Korean member of Congress) was from and also served as Mayor.
“..given her aggressive defense of partial birth abortion, it’s appropriate that she married a man whose last name is Slaughter.”
Yes, and too bad all politicians didn’t have names to show what they represent.
Especially for him.
Yeah, he was ugly as a gopher with down syndrome on his best looking day.
Ling-Ling, rolls off the tongue.
Ling-Ling Ling-Ling Ling-Ling Ling-Ling Ling-Ling Ling-Ling
Ok, Ose looks good, his chances I mean, Ose himself looks like a bowl of cold oatmeal compared to Igor Birman. A record number of ballot are being challenged though, rats will try to “adjust” the totals.
Still very worried about McSally and Johnny T.
DeMaio is screwed, amid news that Peters campaign colluded with his “victim”. What a SHOCKER!
Mark Assini is also very likely to be screwed. That would be a hell of a sweet win. 39% Romney, 2 points worse than the seat that elected Kakto by 20 points (Dan Maffei commit a murder I don’t know about?). Did Astorino carry both districts?
Rolls... Tongue... Yes.
Seamus - there’s your opening: “Hey, I’m a LINGuist.”
Get it? A LINGuist?
But does black crack?
Astorino definitely carried Slaughter’s NY-25 (which, as you noted, gave Romney only 39.4% in 2012), since Astorino carried Monroe County bt 48.2% to 46.7% and the NY-25 includes only Rochester and its closer-in suburbs (thus excluding the most Republican parta of Monroe County.
As for Maffei’s NY-24 (where Romney got 41,1%), I believe that Cuomo must have carried it by a little over 1,000 votes. The NY-24 includes all of Onondaga, Cayuga and Wayne Counties and part of Oswego County, and Cuomo carried Onondaga (Syracuse by such a large margin(15,030 votes as per Dave Leip) that Astorino wasn’t able to make up for it in the other counties . If the portions of Oswego County in the NY-24 voted exactly like the county as a whole, then Cuomo carried the CD by almost exactly 1,000 votes, but since the NY-24 portion of Oswego County includes the Democrat-voting City of Oswego, Cuomo’s margin must have been a bit over 1,000 votes in the CD.
Maybe we should stop calling California Blue and start calling it Indigo.
Associated Press projected Scott Peters won a second term. Dirty pool by a former DeMaio staffer who may have stolen office supplies sunk him. As for the harassment charges themselves, I don’t know what to believe.
As for that Massachusetts race, if John Tierney had been the nominee, Richard Tisei would be headed for Congress. Seth Moulton was a far more difficult target. A working-class Iraq War combat veteran who graduated from Harvard while working for the railroad, he cut a non-political image and was a Teflon candidate. Tisei was caught off guard by his primary victory and never regained his footing.
I have some news from Indiana, all good news, of course. Republicans made further gains in the legislature. They will have an incredible 40-to-10 majority in the state Senate, the biggest in my lifetime, and 71-to-29 majority in the state House of Representatives. They also won every statewide office and easily reelected their members of Congress.
Me again before my time runs out.
Some may remember that freshman Congresswoman Gloria Negrette McLeod gave up a safe Democrat seat in Congress to run for San Bernardino County Supervisor so she could govern more locally. Well, she lost to a local state Assemblyman. Most didn’t see that coming.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors have two potential rising Republican stars. Michelle Park Steele was elected to represent the northwestern part of the county by a wide margin, the first Supervisor of Korean ancestry. It also has its first Supervisor of Japanese ancestry in Lisa Bartlett (I don’t know her maiden name), but I’m not certain of Bartlett’s conservatism (she had labor union backing for the nominally non-partisan office and her opponent was also a Republican).
Indiana is the kind of state that should NOT have a rat senator
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