The results from the special in CA-25, which saw Mike Garcia prevail by around 10 percentage points, shows a new strategy emerging for the GOP.
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If anybody had told me last year I’d have accurately predicted 90% of the events leading up to the special election, I’d probably have asked them what kind of acid they dropped.
Median household income in CA-25 When I initially covered the CA-25 primary and special primary this past January, just about…
Local elections are typically dull, uninteresting affairs. For offices with minimal power, between candidates with little in the way of campaign infrastructure, very few voters usually pay attention to municipal races and often the elections end in uninteresting, low turnout landslides. Outside of New York and occasionally Chicago, elections for mayor are hardly noticed by the national media, and until recently, elections for district attorney were even less talked about. But in 2003, San Francisco was different. When the results were in, the city’s voters changed the course of modern American politics without even realizing it.
The politics of CA-25 change direction much like the Santa Ana winds shift through the canyons and mountain passes: warm…