{"id":12852,"date":"2010-11-16T06:26:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T06:26:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-16T06:26:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T06:26:12","slug":"kamala-harris-lead-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/16\/kamala-harris-lead-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris&#8217; Lead Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest numbers from the Secretary of State&#8217;s office <a href=\"http:\/\/vote.sos.ca.gov\/returns\/attorney-general\/\">show Kamala Harris with a 31,483 vote lead<\/a> over Steve Cooley:<\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris: 4,127,981 (46.0%)<br \/>\n<br \/>Steve Cooley: 4,096,498 (45.6%)<\/p>\n<p>LA City Council president Eric Garcetti has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?saved&#038;&#038;note_id=458569360741&#038;id=12476614805\">providing ongoing updates on the race<\/a> and explained where these most recent ballots have come from:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These votes came from Ventura, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties. &nbsp;More provisionals than VBMs are now outstanding, and these will break for Harris most likely&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Update later in the day, after Harris took the 31,000 vote lead] These came at least partially from Alameda, Alpine, Contra Costa, Del Norte, and Siskiyou. &nbsp;Trends continue upward for Harris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are still about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/2010-elections\/2010-election-information\/november-2010\/total-unprocessed-ballots.pdf\">774,000 ballots left to be counted statewide<\/a>. 150,000 of them are in LA County, 54,000 in Orange, and 71,000 in San Diego, with plenty more scattered across the state. There&#8217;s obviously still a lot of counting left to be done, but Kamala Harris has continued to build a lead. Assuming Steve Cooley and his supporters don&#8217;t turn this into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baycitizen.org\/attorney-generals-race\/story\/cooley-harris-war-words-heats\/\">another Brooks Brothers riot<\/a> and the ballots are properly counted, then I think it&#8217;s fair to expect Kamala Harris will be our next Attorney General. Obviously still a ways to go, but at least the trends are favorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest numbers from the Secretary of State&#8217;s office <a href=\"http:\/\/vote.sos.ca.gov\/returns\/attorney-general\/\">show Kamala Harris with a 31,483 vote lead<\/a> over Steve Cooley:<\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris: 4,127,981 (46.0%)<br \/>\n<br \/>Steve Cooley: 4,096,498 (45.6%)<\/p>\n<p>LA City Council president Eric Garcetti has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?saved&#038;&#038;note_id=458569360741&#038;id=12476614805\">providing ongoing updates on the race<\/a> and explained where these most recent ballots have come from:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These votes came from Ventura, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties. &nbsp;More provisionals than VBMs are now outstanding, and these will break for Harris most likely&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Update later in the day, after Harris took the 31,000 vote lead] These came at least partially from Alameda, Alpine, Contra Costa, Del Norte, and Siskiyou. &nbsp;Trends continue upward for Harris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are still about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/2010-elections\/2010-election-information\/november-2010\/total-unprocessed-ballots.pdf\">774,000 ballots left to be counted statewide<\/a>. 150,000 of them are in LA County, 54,000 in Orange, and 71,000 in San Diego, with plenty more scattered across the state. There&#8217;s obviously still a lot of counting left to be done, but Kamala Harris has continued to build a lead. Assuming Steve Cooley and his supporters don&#8217;t turn this into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baycitizen.org\/attorney-generals-race\/story\/cooley-harris-war-words-heats\/\">another Brooks Brothers riot<\/a> and the ballots are properly counted, then I think it&#8217;s fair to expect Kamala Harris will be our next Attorney General. Obviously still a ways to go, but at least the trends are favorable.<\/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-12852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3li","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852","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=12852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}