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  • Election Day in California: 53 House races, and hardly a real contest in sight

    10/24/2004 9:14:29 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 19 replies · 567+ views
    Monterey Herald ^ | 10/24/04 | Erica Werner - AP
    WASHINGTON - The five candidates vying to unseat Democratic Rep. Sam Farr of California have little in common - except their address and the likelihood that they will lose. The Republican, the Libertarian, the Green, the Peace and Freedom candidate and the write-in independent all work from the same donated office space in a former golf shop as they pursue longshot quests to topple the six-term House member. Their improbable arrangement saves money, but it's also a conscious statement about the near-impossibility of beating a congressional incumbent in California. "This American system of a representative government, it does not exist...