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Democrats keep House seats
Unlike the presidential race, which raged on the day after Election Day, there was very little drama in Bay Area congressional races Wednesday morning.
Incumbent Democrats ruled the day in all 12 House races involving Bay Area congressional districts. Locally, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) won her 15th term in Congress, beating fellow Democrat Rishi Kumar in District 18 with 65.7% of the vote. Eshoo’s district covers parts of Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz counties.
Democrat Jackie Speier beat Republican Ran S. Petel in District 14, winning her fifth term in the House with 80.5% of the vote. Speier’s district covers San Mateo County and a small part of San Francisco.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi easily won her 18th term in Congress, defeating fellow Democrat Shahid Buttar with 79.2% of the vote in San Francisco’s District 12.
State Legislature races
Democrats will still hold commanding majorities in both the state Senate and Assembly. Even if Republicans were to win all of their target seats and keep the ones they’re defending — and preliminary results suggest that’s unlikely — Democrats would still hold more than 70% of seats in both chambers.
What isn’t clear is just how large next year’s Democratic supermajorities will be and what kind of Democrats they’ll include.
Another sizable blue wave would send more GOP incumbents across central and Southern California into involuntary retirement. That would bolster the chamber’s Democratic ranks, and its representation of moderate suburbia.
Locally, the race for state Senate District 13 indicates Democrat Josh Becker is set to replace Jerry Hill, who’s being termed out of office. Becker garnered 77.3% of votes (or 238,412) while Republican Alexander Glew collected 22.7% of votes (or 70,120), according to unofficial state election results available Wednesday afternoon.
Assemblyman Marc Berman, the Democrat who previously served on the Palo Alto City Council, has retained his seat. Berman had 75.8% of votes (or 105,423) while Republican Peter Ohtaki, a former Menlo Park mayor, received 24.2% of votes (or 33,716), unofficial state election results show.
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What an incredible surprise that all the Democrat incumbents were voted in (again) except, of course, for those who termed out of office! Do you all think these people are doing such a stellar job of running our government that they deserve to constantly get re-elected? And Nancy P seems to be getting positively Soviet-style re-election numbers at 80% of the vote. Diversity everywhere, except in thought and ideas! Way to go California!!
“Do you all think these people are doing such a stellar job of running our government that they deserve to constantly get re-elected?”
Of course not, silly. Here’s the one thing that 2 of 3 of all your neighbors do agree upon: these politicians are vastly better than the alternative!
So sorry you don’t agree with us. Maybe next time you can run a real candidate, not those woeful losers that usually get whipped every couple of years.
God could run as a Republican in the Bay Area and not get elected. And in the words of one famous Democrat politician “we could run a vegetable with a D next to its name and it would get elected here.”
“God could run as a Republican”
Alas, many seem to act like one did at a higher level, oddly, of the orange face-painted variety.
How has that worked out?
It’s worked out great!! Lower taxes, higher employment, fewer regulations, highest Hispanic and black employment ever, wage increases for middle class, ISIS routed, peace agreements in Middle East, military being built back up after being gutted by Obama and Biden, no more apologies (ala Obama) for wanting what is best for America (America First), energy independence, I could go on. So, yeah, I’d say pretty great!!
” Lower taxes, higher employment, fewer regulations, highest Hispanic and black employment ever, wage increases for middle class”
Lower taxes on corporations and billionaires = the first trillion dollar deficit since George W, Bush’s trillion dollar deficit. Glad to know you won’t spend the next 4 years whining about government borrowing!
The rest of the claims above are false, such as: “higher employment” is absurd. Trump may end up with TWICE the unemployment with which he started – BBC:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/A6B0/production/_114727624_us.unemployment-nc-1.png
Note also that all the Trump “gains” were just riding Obama’s coattails.
Address the ten year chart above.
Obama had no coattails. He was a boat anchor on the economy. Not sure where you get your tax info, but middle and low income families saw their taxes go down. Not by tens of thousands of dollars, because they don’t earn millions, like all of your neighbors here in the Bay Area, but a meaningful amount to them. Higher employment is a fact.
It will be very interesting to see what happens when Biden is phased out due to senility in about, say six months, and “Commie” Harris (that is how you pronounce it, isn’t it?) becomes our first socialist Pres.
“Higher employment is a fact.”
Oh, good lord, one of those – you claim a “fact” and do not substantiate your false claim. I posted above a 10 year unemployment chart that refutes your silly claims.
So let’s post another: BLS employment for 20 years (non-ag, by month,) showing Trump riding Obama’s economic coattails, again.
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-employment.htm
Claiming dubious facts without substantiation? Can we move past the lies, please?