Democrat Attorney Alyson Huber is smiling tonight. In her race against San Joaquin County Supervisor Jack Seiglock, the Republican nominee in Assembly District 10 where GOPer Alan Nakanishi, late counting of ballots has propelled her into a pretty commanding 507 vote lead — with no votes left to count in Seiglock's home county. In fact, most of the (few) remaining ballots to be counted are in Sacramento County, which is where Huber closed and crossed the gap.
Pending some divine intervention, it looks like the massive union-pile-on of cash for liberal Huber will have paid off. And Assembly Republicans will number 29…
This is not good news for the GOP as this is a Dem pickup in what originally was not even a targeted seat. You can be sure of two things — the first being that quite a post mortem will take place to analyze this loss, and the second is that this seat will be the top target for the GOP in 2010
November 26th, 2008 at 12:00 am
It might actually be 28 Republicans, 1 Republican might get disqualified because he does not live in his district (Jim Nielsen).
I think the problems the party has is VOTER REGISTRATION, we need to get the margins better. and MESSAGE.
We have to express to the voters why it is important to keep the 2/3rds protections against tax increases and to pass the budget.
However the Republicans need to write a budget and sell it to the public. How will Republicans lead if given a chance in 2010.