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Can Hillary Clinton manage to win at Ohio hold ‘em?
A caller to our office today was angry at our headline today: "Clinton draws jeers in debate." "Why do you always focus on the negative," she asked. "Why didn't you focus on the standing ovation she got at the end?"It was a fair complaint, although her Xerox comment did go [...]
Growing, growing … gone
The Legislature's chief number-cruncher released her analysis of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget today -- and the news wasn't good.Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill
San Francisco official blasts Sonoma County for closing psych unit
In a letter sent to The Press Democrat (to be published on Wednesday), San Francisco Controller Ed Harrington takes Sonoma County to task for its care of people with mental health needs. (Harrington is responding to a story last week about Memorial Hospital's decision to close the county's last inpatient [...]
Are North Coast Democrats ready to forgive Joe Nation?
The decision by former North Bay Assemblyman Joe Nation to enter the already competitive Democratic race for the 3rd District State Senate seat certainly complicates things. Incumbent Sen. Carole Migden already faced a couple of formidable challengers in San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno and San Francisco Police Commissoner Joe Alioto [...]
Good-bye to Romney
Just before we started the Editorial Board meeting at 10 a.m., the news came across the wire that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was dropping out of the race."If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign [...]
Looking back at Tuesday – and ahead to November
Sonoma State University Political Science Professor David McCuan issued some interesting observations today about Tuesday's election returns."If we've learned anything during this primary season," he wrote, "it is that the voters defy easy analysis. From misconstrued polls to the absence of reasonable scrutiny, voters have bucked being on the proverbial [...]
Now the races go into overtime . . .
Tuesday was supposed to be a defining moment in the 2008 presidential race. With delegates from an unprecedented two dozen states up for grabs, it was the night when the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees were to be determined " with California being the deciding factor.But it didn't quite turn [...]
Observations from some astute observers
Local political consultant Herb Williams had a couple of pithy observations about the local and statewide results.On Propositions 94-97 (Indian gambling), which are losing 32-68 in Sonoma County and are virtually tied statewide: "If you don't live near a casino you will vote for the measures. If you live near [...]
Finally. Some state and local results….
Sonoma County's Registrar of Voters has released the first batch of local results, based on early absentee ballots.Hillary Clinton has 47 percent, Barack Obama, 40 percent, and John Edwards, 10 percent (I'll bet those voters wish they had their ballots back).And the 10 percent of GOP voters who voted for [...]
