It really is a shame, but I'm not seeing how Angelides and the Democrats pull this one off. SurveyUSA. 8/25-28. Likely voters. MoE 4.4% (No trend lines) Schwarzenegger (R) 52 Angelides (D) 38 While I like SUS...

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The Field Poll is scary accurate, the best in California, and it's delivering bad news today: After signing the state's timeliest budget in six years and ru...

Continue Reading CA-Gov: Field poll notes Ahnold lead

CALIFORNIA Rasmussen. 7/5. Likely voters. MoE 4.5% (5/15 results) Schwarzenegger (R) 44 (45) Angelides (D) 46 (45) MARYLAND Baltimo...

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Rep. John Doolittle and his wife are two seriously corrupt people. In the past two years, campaign and political action committees controlled by Rep. John T. Doolittl...

Continue Reading CA-04: The Doolittle racket

San Jose State. 6/26-30. Registered voters. MoE 3.3% (3/27-31 results) Schwarzenegger (R) 44 (40) Angelides (D) 37 (37) ...

Continue Reading CA-Gov: Ahnold trends upward

There are probably lots of reasons why we didn't win the special election in the California 50th, but one of them is clearly the fact that the...

Continue Reading CA-50: the GOP’s technology advantage

The NRCC used to have a huge fundraising advantage over the DCCC. The CA-50 special election clearly changed all that given a look at the la...

Continue Reading May fundraising numbers (and why CA-50 mattered)

Democrats had a real choice between a DLC-backed milquetoast Democrat and a true progressive in two races -- the California governor's race and the...

Continue Reading Rise of people-powered politics

Well, it seems everything I've been saying for the last few months came to happen. 1) Democrats are not motivated to turn out. Sure, Busby e...

Continue Reading CA-50: Post-mortem

I'm catching a cold, and I should get some rest and see if I can beat this before YearlyKos. The last things I need is 1) to be sick given all...

Continue Reading CA-50: Results trickling in

Fresh thread. Still no results beyond the absentees: 57 of 500 Precincts   11.4 Percent Bilbray (R)   20,448   50.60 Busby (D) &n...

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