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Bilbray Hopes To Make Splash On Election Day California’s Primary Election is just days away. Also on Tuesday’s ballot, one race will be decided -- it is the 50th District short-term special election. According to a 10News/Survey USA Poll, the race is neck and neck. Republican Brian Bilbray has with 47 percent of the vote, while Democrat Francine Busby has 45 percent of the vote. Voter turnout will be key in the winner of the seat once held by Randy “Duke” Cunningham. With less than a week to go until the election to replace Cunningham, the countdown is on. In...

Yesterday Taranto asked "if readers could come up with news articles from 1994 that anticipated the Republican landslide that year. A reader named Pete said he tried and failed to do so at the time: Pete and his son "collected all the New York Times print versions from Labor Day through November to look for bias." After the "GOP landslide, we went back through, searching for articles referring to the Contract With America or other things that might have signaled dissatisfaction or what might be the preconditions leading to a landslide." "[H]ere's a summary recollection: "'Except for the day the...

SAN DIEGO ---- Republican 50th Congressional District candidate Brian Bilbray avoided what could have proven a thorny encounter Wednesday, after U.S. Sen. John McCain pulled out of a campaign fundraiser for Bilbray on the eve of the event. Adding to the dicey nature of 11th hour cancellation, Bilbray adamantly opposes an immigration reform measure McCain helped craft ---- a bill that is supported by Francine Busby, Bilbray's Democratic opponent in the race to temporarily fill the seat formerly held by Randy "Duke" Cunningham. McCain skipped the $250-a-plate breakfast at a San Diego hotel, because of "differences" over a solution to...

ENCINITAS ---- Call it a case of pushing the "Send" button a moment too soon. With less than a week left in the race for the 50th Congressional District, Democrat Francine Busby's campaign Wednesday e-mailed a notice to media outlets claiming that her Republican opponent, Brian Bilbray, had mailed a campaign letter on the Encinitas taxpayers' dime. "Illegal use of taxpayer money by Bilbray," screamed the headline of the electronic announcement. The misstep stems not from criticism of the letter written by Mayor Christy Guerin, but from confusion over the envelope that Busby officials and an Encinitas resident thought had...