Steve Cooley (R) takes lead in CA Atty General race

[SoCalNative]

as of November 5, 2010, 6:36 p.m.

Kamala D. Harris (Dem) 3,485,926 45.7

Steve Cooley (Rep) 3,502,021 46.0%

Harris had been in the lead the past few days, sometimes by as much as 17,000 votes.


http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/attorney-general/

[Dawson Leery]

1. ...

I thought she won?

[SoCalNative]

3. No..she decalared victory

but the votes are still coming in..Counties have 28 days after the election to count and report the provisional/absentee ballots.

And the race was too close (less than 2%) for a winner to be declared.

[slackmaster]

4. Me too

Mail-in ballots sometimes shift the numbers.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. There are many, many votes yet to be counted...

I expect the totals to shift between them quite a lot till the tally is done...

We just need to hang on.

[RandySF]

9. It's a matter of whose ballots are counted when

I don't know where they came from, but it could be all of Colley's counties finishing up first.

[SoCalNative]

10. The most recent ones counted

Have come from San Bernardino and Riverside counties, huge Republican strongholds.

FWIW, Cooley is significantly behind in his home county (Los Angeles) and they've just started to count the provisional and absentee ballots.


LOS ANGELES COUNTY a/o November 5, 2010, 3:36 p.m.

Kamala D. Harris (Dem) 1,004,737 53.4%

Steve Cooley (Rep) 743,482 39.5%

[denbot]

5. How many mail in ballots are still "out there"?

Are there enough uncounted to matter?

[SoCalNative]

7. Obviously there are

or there would have been a winner declared.

[JI7]

6. i really want kamala to win this , i hope it changes again.

[RandySF]

8. A lot of ballots left in San Francisco

Something on the order of 50,000.