{"id":12811,"date":"2010-11-03T22:43:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T22:43:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-03T22:43:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T22:43:29","slug":"kamala-harris-claims-victory-in-attorney-general-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/03\/kamala-harris-claims-victory-in-attorney-general-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Claims Victory in Attorney General Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Secretary of State shows 100% of precincts reporting<\/a>, and Kamala Harris leads Steve Cooley by approximately 15,000 votes:<\/p>\n

Harris: 3,292,836 (45.9%)
\n
Cooley: 3,277,998 (45.7%)<\/p>\n

Now the “100% precincts reporting” stat does not<\/em> mean that every last vote has been counted. There remain potentially hundreds of thousands of uncounted late absentee ballots across the state. However, Harris’s campaign believes – and I agree – that these ballots will likely break for her, and lead to her becoming the next Attorney General.<\/p>\n

Today Harris declared victory and her campaign manager, Ace Smith, put out the following statement:<\/p>\n

In spite of Steve Cooley’s Dewey-esque declaration of victory at 11:00 pm Tuesday night – which was followed six hours later by a cancellation of a Wednesday morning “victory” press conference – San Francisco  District Attorney Kamala Harris will be the next Attorney General of the State of California. Here is why:<\/p>\n

\u2022 With 100% of precincts reporting, Kamala Harris has won the Election Day count by 14,838 votes, 45.9% to 45.7%. <\/p>\n

\u2022 Uncounted ballots will only bolster Kamala Harris’s lead, as they will reflect Harris’s strong Election Day advantage.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Considering that Cooley jumped out to a 50% to 42% lead on Tuesday night thanks to early absentee ballots – and considering where the vote total ended up – our model shows that Kamala Harris clearly won the vote on Election Day by 3%. The provisional ballots cast on Tuesday will reflect Harris’s victory.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The late absentee ballots will reflect Harris’s late surge in the race – which was captured both in public and private polling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This all seems quite sound to me, especially considering their evidence that Harris won on election day. Let’s hope her lead holds. Not just because Dems would then have had a clean sweep of the statewide offices, but also because Steve Cooley is a crazy right-winger who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a position of power like the AG’s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Secretary of State shows 100% of precincts reporting<\/a>, and Kamala Harris leads Steve Cooley by approximately 15,000 votes:<\/p>\n

Harris: 3,292,836 (45.9%)
\n
Cooley: 3,277,998 (45.7%)<\/p>\n

Now the “100% precincts reporting” stat does not<\/em> mean that every last vote has been counted. There remain potentially hundreds of thousands of uncounted late absentee ballots across the state. However, Harris’s campaign believes – and I agree – that these ballots will likely break for her, and lead to her becoming the next Attorney General.<\/p>\n

Today Harris declared victory and her campaign manager, Ace Smith, put out the following statement:<\/p>\n

In spite of Steve Cooley’s Dewey-esque declaration of victory at 11:00 pm Tuesday night – which was followed six hours later by a cancellation of a Wednesday morning “victory” press conference – San Francisco  District Attorney Kamala Harris will be the next Attorney General of the State of California. Here is why:<\/p>\n

\u2022 With 100% of precincts reporting, Kamala Harris has won the Election Day count by 14,838 votes, 45.9% to 45.7%. <\/p>\n

\u2022 Uncounted ballots will only bolster Kamala Harris’s lead, as they will reflect Harris’s strong Election Day advantage.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Considering that Cooley jumped out to a 50% to 42% lead on Tuesday night thanks to early absentee ballots – and considering where the vote total ended up – our model shows that Kamala Harris clearly won the vote on Election Day by 3%. The provisional ballots cast on Tuesday will reflect Harris’s victory.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The late absentee ballots will reflect Harris’s late surge in the race – which was captured both in public and private polling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This all seems quite sound to me, especially considering their evidence that Harris won on election day. Let’s hope her lead holds. Not just because Dems would then have had a clean sweep of the statewide offices, but also because Steve Cooley is a crazy right-winger who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a position of power like the AG’s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3kD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}