Looks like Kamela Harris is gonna pull through as the New DA in Cali!

[FrenchieCat]

:bounce:

Major Obama supporter, and a wonderful woman!



Harris widens lead over Cooley in attorney general's race
November 17, 2010

The San Francisco Democrat now leads the L.A. County district attorney by 31,000 votes, with more than 550,000 ballots left to be counted. About 350,000 of those ballots are in counties Harris carried Nov. 2.



San Francisco Dist. Atty. Kamala Harris' lead in the race for California attorney general continued to grow Tuesday, making a possible comeback appear increasingly difficult for her rival, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley.

Harris, the Democratic nominee, led by 31,000 votes Tuesday evening, with more than 555,000 uncounted ballots left to be processed across California, according to a Times review of updated vote counts in all 58 counties. Working against Cooley, the Republican, is the fact that about 350,000 of the remaining ballots are in counties Harris carried on election day.

Perhaps as an indication of the vote trend, Cooley's campaign aides over the last five days have been filing complaints about what they allege is bias toward Harris on the part of Los Angeles County elections officials.
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The race has been one of the closest statewide contests in decades, with the lead switching between Harris and Cooley since the Nov. 2 election as county workers throughout California started the laborious process of verifying and tallying an estimated 2.3 million late-arriving vote-by-mail and provisional ballots.

Cooley would have to win the pool of remaining votes by a margin of about 6% to overcome Harris' lead, a difficult task in a race where the vote tallies for the two candidates have been separated by just tenths of a percentage point since election day.


more..... http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-attorney-general-20101117,0,4738221.story

[Kind of Blue]

1. This race has been a serious nail-biter.

Every day I check-in and either she or Cooley is ahead by a few votes. I'm so happy she's pulling waay ahead! I love our state but I badly need a manicure after this election season:D

[FrenchieCat]

2. Attorney General is a serious position in California......

and I'm really happy that it looks like she's in! :headbang:

[Kind of Blue]

3. Indeed! Sure looks the logical step from there

to Governor. I'm sure of it for Harris, after Jerry's 3rd and 4th terms!

[FrenchieCat]

4. Wouldn't that be grand! A Black Woman Governor for California!

Wow! I smile just thinking about it!

[Kind of Blue]

5. I think we can keep this going? Why not eventually...

President????
Keeping my fingers crossed though that Cooley is not going to pull any kind of hinkey, like the ass in Alaska. He surely looks like he's not even ready to concede to a woman, let alone a black woman. Bracing for the fight.