"Obama Turnout Machine Crashes in San Diego—Loses Mayor’s Race by Nine Points
By John Fund
February 12, 2014 8:00 AM
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Kevin Faulkoner recaptured the mayor’s office in San Diego for Republicans in a special election yesterday. The polls were skin-tight leading into yesterday’s election, and unions poured in millions to keep control in the nation’s eighth-largest city.
But in the end the vaunted Obama election model — flood the zone with negative attack ads and excite the base of the Democratic party — flopped. Faulkoner defeated fellow City Council member David Alvarez by nine points in a city that Barack Obama carried by 63 percent to 37 percent only 15 months ago.
Democrats were stunned at the margin. In the November open primary, Democrats had won 54 percent of the ballots cast and were convinced they could win the runoff between Faulkoner and Alvarez. Unions pitched in a record $4.2 million to promote Alvarez, compared to only $1.7 million from business interests backing Faulkoner. In the end, Alvarez outspent Faulkoner in total by a million dollars."...
California is looking at dividing into six states. Republicans are tired of having their votes cancelled out by LA and San Fran. I doubt it will go anywhere. They like having all those electoral votes locked up but it would look tempting if the Dems can grab six more Senators.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
A start or a hiccup. I have not followed SD politics in decades but when we lived there the town was so reliably r that Roger Hedgecock (r) was reelected mayor while under felony indictment.
