DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

By bob Walsh

Well, Haley got skunked and bailed out.  Not surprising.  I hope she can see her way clear to endorsing Trump downstream.  It will hurt her if she doesn't and she might have a future in politics if she does not come out looking like a nasty spoil-sport.

California Proposition 1 is winning, barely.  It will be days before they have a final count and it may be subject to a recount.  Right now it is running 50.1 % in favor.  Floating a $6 billion bond when the state is more than $70 billion upside down is a big ask.  Newsom put a bunch of political capital behind this and if it doesn't pass he will look like a weak punk.  

Garvey and Schiff are running very, very close for both the partial term and the full term in the U. S. senate.  That is what Schiff wanted.  He does not want to run against another Democrat and that's what would have happened if Garvey had bombed.  Thing is that Garvey is showing a very surprising strength in general and come the general election it is possible he will knock Schiff down.  I am not betting on it but it is far from impossible.

The current Stockton Mayor, Kevin Lincoln, is losing to incumbent Josh Harder in the 9th Congressional centered in Stockton.  That is good.  Kevin Lincoln is a jerkoff.

The 5th State Senate District shows the Republican, Jim Shoemaker, well ahead of Democrat Jerry McNerney.  

Some of the major questions will not be settled for days.  CA has universal mail-out ballots and accepts ballots for one week after election day as long as they were postmarked on or before election day.