New Results from San Fran Mayor Race - Newsom up, Thread 1

http://www.sfgate.com/election/races/2003/12/09/

Gavin Newsom 46,192 votes 65.4 percent of the votes

Matt Gonzalez 24, 409 34.6 percent of the vote

Newsom is said to have a higher turnout amongst mail in ballot voters.

I'm sorry: I'm looking at the SF from afar with only one goal in mind--beating Bush. The Democratic party does not need any more division or defection before Bush is booted.

I wish Newsom was better, but we can't hope for anything that gives Nader any hope, that makes Nader look anything but instantly ridiculous.

gives Nader credence.

have you seen the press this race is getting?

I'm sorry, the story is that the Greens can't win a non-partisan seat in San Fran-fooking-Cisco. Where to go from here? Nowhere.

If Dean is the nominee, one pleasant side effect would be the absorption of the Greenie diehards into the Democratic activist corps. Whatever desplinters the left is good by me.

Considering the enmity for the Greens, they do pretty well to get Pelosi, Feinstein, Gore, AND Clinton out to support him.

This was big for the Greenies :-)

Learned a little more about Newsom. On balance I think it's good that Newsom won, sicne I do not want the left divided between two parties.

But Newsom himself is totally worthless, and there's no joy to be had in his victory.

which is even worse... I fear the Left in California will feel even more alienated from the Democratic Party and vote accordingly in the future. People here are seething about Clinton/Gore coming to stump for Newsom.

So we've kept San Francisco but at what price?

For years Dems have told the Green, focus on local races, build your way up and blah, blah (you see it here every day). The minute a Green victory, at local level, is within reach- what happens? Here come the big guns, endorsing a vile, vile man over the people, over the homeless.

The message was clear and battle-lines are now being drawn. My phone has been ringing non-stop from angry SF-ers who are LIVID with the Dem Party, thier own Party now- feeling totally betrayed. I think this was one of the dumbest things the Democratic Party could have done.

the Greens have gotten a lot of great press.

is one of those "old Democrats up here that have been acting like Republicans all along." He's a businessman; "Democrat" is simply his sales pitch. Truth in advertising laws do not apply.

damn you said it right!

Newsom 62%
Gonzalez 38%

19% precincts

Hopefully this is the prelude to the welcome demise of the Green Party in 2004.

Newsom gave $500 to Bush in 2000.

Argh. Ignore my prior glee at Newsom's pending win then...

Damn.

(You got a link for that?)

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:shrug:

on a piece of paper which is then fed into a vote reading machine. Very, very verifiable.

Newsom, 64,043 votes 59.5 percent
Gonzalez, 43,641 votes 40.5 percent

26 percent reporting

Newsome 57.5

Gonzalas 42.5

The turn-out is something to be pretty proud of.

And Matt will give it another go next time around if Gavin is elected. And he could win next time if Gavin doesn't come up with thte goods he promised the voters.

Other bonus will be that IRV will be in place by then. So the city can save itself some big bucks by not having to hold a second election again.

:argh:

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Newsome 56.6

Gonzalez 43.4

55.1 Newsom
44.9 Gonzalez

61 percent reporting

Newsome 55.0

Gonzalez 45.0

and Clinton and Gore were simply paying back some political favors.... you know, party loyalty and all that.

Newsome 53.7

Gonzalez 46.3

C'mon Matt!

Newsom 53.7 votes 101,188 votes

Gonzalez 46.3 votes 87,207 votes

but it is getting pretty close

Newsom - 53.3
Gonzalez - 46.7

80 percent reporting

Newsome 52.9

Gonzalez 47.1

but it was very very very close. Gonzalez will be back, do not doubt that.

Gavin Newsom - 114,798 52.6
Matt Gonzalez - 103,562 47.4

96 percent reporting

actually, I wanted Gonzalez to win. No doubt about it, he will be back.

:party::party::party:

you mean Democorp?