It’s taken nearly a month to make the call, but Democratic Rep. Jerry McNerney has been re-elected to a third term in his Northern California district, narrowly defeating Republican David Harmer.As of Wednesday, McNerney held a lead of about 2,500 votes, with 1,900 ballots still to be counted. Harmer sent a message to supporters Wednesday [...]
In Oregon, Democrat John Kitzhaber looked to join Jerry Brown as another former West Coast governor to reclaim an office he held years before. Standing in his way early Wednesday was the formidable 6-foot-11 frame of former NBA center and Republican challenger Chris Dudley. At 12:30 a.m., with 81 percent of the state reporting, Dudley [...]
A new ad hit the Web late Wednesday: “When reporters interview him, they are known to get lost in his piercing brown eyes,” a narrator intones. “He once balanced the state budget with only a stern look.” Another one of those hilarious Dos Equis commercials, right? Nope. It’s a spot for California gubernatorial candidate Jerry [...]
As the campaigns head into their last laps, Democrat Jerry Brown appears to be breaking away from Republican challenger Meg Whitman in the California governor’s race and Republican Marco Rubio looks like he is close to sewing up the Senate race in Florida. In other new polls Sunday, the Democratic incumbent Martin O’Malley is putting [...]
The last time many non-Californians saw Jerry Brown in action, he was wearing a black turtleneck and lecturing his fellow 1992 presidential aspirants most uncharmingly. So some of us weren’t expecting the scrappy, self-mocking guy who showed up for last night’s first gubernatorial debate with his Republican opponent, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Brown repeatedly [...]
Helped by the Democrat’s dominance in California and negative views of their opponents, Jerry Brown holds a smaller lead over Republican Meg Whitman in the governor’s race and Barbara Boxer has built a somewhat larger margin over the GOP’s Carly Fiorina in her bid for a fourth Senate term, according to a USC/Los Angeles Times [...]
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