Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley not only won the Republican nomination for Attorney General, he got his dream match-up in Kamala Harris, the uber-liberal District Attorney of San Francisco, and he will be California’s next Attorney General.

Kamala Harris is simply unelectable as Attorney General. She has the worst criminal conviction rate in the state, having barely won over 50% of her felony trials. She presides over a Sanctuary City and actually provides support and legal comfort for illegal immigrants. She is on the hot seat for failing to disclose massive negligence in the San Francisco crime lab, a failure that could result in the release of thousands of violent criminals. She opposes the death penalty. She was THE most liberal candidate in the Democrat primary, and now she is toast. (PS – How do you feel today, Chris Kelly? $10 million for a 2:1 loss. Ouch.)

Steve Cooley is certainly not a perfect candidate. He’s got big problems with his administration of the Three Strikes law, especially his office policy not to pursue a third strike unless it is a violent felony. He also authored a ballot initiative to weaken the Three Strikes law.… Read More

Meg Whitman — Remarks as prepared for delivery… Thank you so much… What a great night! This victory is yours! I just received a very gracious phone call from Steve Poizner conceding the race. I want to commend Commissioner Poizner and his supporters for the energy they brought to their campaign. It has been a tough campaign, but I’m a stronger candidate tonight because of it. I’m battle-tested. … Read More

Update action for now is on Twitter here.

Top notes: It’s Whitman vs. Brown, Fiorina vs. Boxer.… Read More

Attorney General, State Senate 4, State Senate 36, State Senate 40 (hey its Democrat but a good fight and I see Vargas at the airport all the time), Assembly 25, Assembly 29, Assembly 33, Assembly 59, Assembly 63, Assembly 68, Assembly 70, Assembly 77, San Jose Seat 1, Ventura County Supervisor Seat 2, San Diego Council Seat 2, San Diego Council Seat 6, San Diego Strong Mayor.

UPDATE: barn burner in Assembly 70. One to watch. UPDATE possible upset in Assembly 77.… Read More

Check out this new website developed by the Institute for Government Studies at UC Berkeley.It called California Choices and it is apartnership between IGS, the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford, the Center for California Studies at Sacramento State, and Next 10, a Bay Area "green" think tank founded and funded by venture capitalist F. Noel Perry. This website shows the positions mostmajor statewide organizations have taken on state ballot measures and allows you to email your positions to friends.

This could be a handy tool when your friends and family call to find out how you voted on the ballot measures. The only issue is that the website does not tell you how they might be using the information collected during the transmission of information from friend to friend. Are they collecting and tallying the info? Are they collecting emails? I’m assuming that if the website proves to be useful to the public over the long termthose… Read More

Tonight I will be trying to provide some analysis of election returns from the comfort of home. While the State GOP’s election night festivities are here in Orange County, I have a great reason to spend this evening with my family. Today we brought home Sophia Elizabeth from the hospital — our daughter, Sophia, was born last Friday!

So besides this blog, the best place to track my musings and observations will be on Twitter here.… Read More

From today’s Wall Street Journal Political Diary Email… (yours truly is quoted)…… Read More

Hi FR gang, I thought I’d knock a little rust off my FR password in honor of Flash’s new arrival [Congrats!]

The race for the 12 county 4th Senate District up here is nearing its conclusion and what a ride its been. I’ve got a good feeling about it, with great thanks to my team…more on that later.

Justa bit on Prop 14, as I’ve seen very good commentary on here already. As vows are being made to have intra-party conventions in response to a possible passage of Prop 14, I have to wonder how that will be a better process than what we have now. The smoke-filled room way of doing business is the exact turn off to voters that will be perpetuated by PASSING 14, when, potentiallya few hundred party people can be wined and dined to favoring a candidate vs. having to make the case to all the electorate in a party primary.

With the "goal" of 14 to cause more moderate candidates, you instead get more bought and paid for ones answering to afew party bosses. The freedom of people that choose to affiliate with a particular party ideal areleft to choose an annointed one, post the party convention, not their… Read More