{"id":12841,"date":"2010-11-12T02:50:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T02:50:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-12T02:50:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T02:50:59","slug":"mcnerney-and-costa-look-likely-to-retain-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/12\/mcnerney-and-costa-look-likely-to-retain-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"McNerney and Costa Look Likely to Retain Seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Democratic Congress members Jerry McNerney and Jim Costa each had some very long election nights. But while it hasn&#8217;t been easy, the good money is now on both of them sticking around another two years.<\/p>\n<p>McNerney:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With the vast majority of votes tallied, the results are clear. Congressman McNerney now has an insurmountable lead,&#8221; McNerney campaign manager Doug Greven said in a news release. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/11\/10\/cd11-mcnerney-declares-victory-harmer-fights-on\/\">IBA<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Costa: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fresno Democrat Jim Costa declared victory Wednesday in a grueling battle to keep the 20th Congressional District seat after he took a 1,200-vote lead over Republican Andy Vidak, a political neophyte from Hanford.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been a hard-fought campaign, obviously, but now it appears as if it is over,&#8221; Costa said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Costa made his announcement after Fresno County elections officials released an updated vote count that put him ahead for the first time.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/2010\/11\/10\/2154735\/costa-takes-lead-in-20th-cong.html#ixzz151p7fLvy\"><\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, there are a few votes left to count in both of these districts, but the math is just rough on both Harmer and Vidak. &nbsp;The votes left are likely to favor the Democrats, making those numbers up seems extremely unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Democratic Congress members Jerry McNerney and Jim Costa each had some very long election nights. But while it hasn&#8217;t been easy, the good money is now on both of them sticking around another two years.<\/p>\n<p>McNerney:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With the vast majority of votes tallied, the results are clear. Congressman McNerney now has an insurmountable lead,&#8221; McNerney campaign manager Doug Greven said in a news release. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/11\/10\/cd11-mcnerney-declares-victory-harmer-fights-on\/\">IBA<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Costa: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fresno Democrat Jim Costa declared victory Wednesday in a grueling battle to keep the 20th Congressional District seat after he took a 1,200-vote lead over Republican Andy Vidak, a political neophyte from Hanford.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been a hard-fought campaign, obviously, but now it appears as if it is over,&#8221; Costa said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Costa made his announcement after Fresno County elections officials released an updated vote count that put him ahead for the first time.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/2010\/11\/10\/2154735\/costa-takes-lead-in-20th-cong.html#ixzz151p7fLvy\"><\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, there are a few votes left to count in both of these districts, but the math is just rough on both Harmer and Vidak. &nbsp;The votes left are likely to favor the Democrats, making those numbers up seems extremely unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[120,3347],"class_list":["post-12841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-120","tag-3347"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3l7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}