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Townhall
Is There a
Viagra for Bored Voters?
Debra J. Saunders
Nov 09, 2014
Democrats won every statewide office (California) and a comfortable
majority of the congressional delegation and legislative seats. Yet at
Capitol Weekly's election postmortem confab Thursday, Republicans were
giddy, and many Democrats were, well, agitated.
Even for California Republicans, Tuesday was heavenly. To start, they
spent Tuesday night watching the GOP make big gains nationally -- a
happy change of pace. In state, it's true, as Democratic strategist
Jason Kinney pronounced, that Dems had a "wildly successful year." The
Dems won every statewide office on the ballot and the majority of
legislative districts. Still, the GOP may well have poached three
Democratic-controlled congressional seats. Longtime incumbent Rep. Jim
Costa is trailing against a little-known Republican dairy farmer, named
Johnny Tacherra -- even though Costa's seat was not on politicos'
watchlists.
Republicans picked up seats and prevented the Democrats from holding
supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature. It's the first time,
wrote California Target Book publisher Allan Hoffenblum, that any
Democratic incumbents were defeated since 1994. What's more, the GOP
put three Asian-American women in the Legislature.
But the Dems should have been high-fiving one another for still owning
most of Sacramento, right? Instead, California Democratic Party Chief
Financial Officer Angie Tate told the audience that people juggling two
jobs and families didn't feel as if they had time to vote. And: "Did we
lose some races? Most definitely. Did we know coming in we'd lose some
races? Duh...
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