CA checking in: All is quiet and deep blue.

[RandySF]

At least on the statewide level. The only drama in San Francisco is a very hot D vs. D race for State Assembly. Good luck to everyone else out there.

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Here in Sonoma County, Republicans are something you have to find on a scavenger hunt.

[pink-o]

5. My 90-yr-old Fux News-watching dad is prolly the only one

Needless to say, he doesn't get out much!

I'm there all the time, it's my drive to the country from SF. So I'll counterbalance it all!!

[kansasblue]

2. Gov Brown crusing to relection.

Balanced state budget. Props 1 and 2 headed for easy victory. (Water and rainy day fund)

Soda tax in SF is interesting.

[Retrograde]

6. Is anyone running against him? (Only half a joke)

Have seen or heard zilch from What's His Name, the Republican candidate, here on the Peninsula. But then the really big race down here (judging by the signs and flyers) is the city council one, with school board and water district vying for a close second.

[Brother Buzz]

3. California's 7th congressional district is the only northern California race that is close

Ex-congressman Doug Ose (R) vs. freshman congressman Dr Ami Bera (D) in a very purple district

Obscene amounts of money are being spent in a very, very close race. Karl Rove's American Crossroads, the Koch brother's Americans for Prosperity, and the NRCC are spending money like drunken sailors.

[shanti]

7. that's my district

i voted by mail a couple of weeks ago. i'm crossing my fingers on this one for bera. TPTB certainly don't want him here.

[Brother Buzz]

11. I'm thinking Bera was viewed as low hanging fruit, ripe for the picking

I'm in a district west of you and I've had to endure all the mud slinging television ads attacking Bera. To their credit, DCCC stepped up and countered every lie and distorted fact by throwing a little mud right back at Ose.

The Fat Cat television station owners are laughing all the way to the bank.

[shanti]

12. wasn't ose

previously representing the placer county district (don't know the number)? they got rid of him there, and want to foist him back on us?

[Brother Buzz]

13. Ose left office by keeping a campaign promise to honor a self-imposed three term-limit pledge.

He represented the old 3rd district that included Sacramento (outside the city), and parts of Solano and Yolo counties. He was my congress critter for two years. Truth be told, I haven't been able to keep up with all the redistricting geography over the years.

[Ykcutnek]

4. As goes California, so goes the nation...

would improve things quite a bit if were even half accurate.

[Beaverhausen]

8. what about those propositions?

45 is pretty hot

[KingCharlemagne]

9. Also some ballot measures\referenda. I'm voting a straight Socialist

line on the ballot measures (mostly pretty wonky).

[Throd]

10. How about Tuck v Torlakson?