Final results of CA-48 special elections

No, Democrat Steve Young did not win, but the front runner, Republican John Campbell get less than 50% of the votes.

Registration and Turnout
Completed Precincts: 268 of 268
Reg/Turnout Percentage
Total Registered Voters 405655
Precinct Registration 405655
Precinct Ballots Cast 34844 8.6%
Early Ballots Cast 28 0.0%
Absentee Ballots Cast 58266 14.4%
Total Ballots Cast 93138 23.0%

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE 48th District
Vote Count Percentage
JOHN CAMPBELL (REP) 41450 44.7%
STEVE YOUNG (DEM) 25926 28.0%
JIM GILCHRIST (AI) 23237 25.1%
BÉA TIRITILLI (GRN) 1242 1.3%
BRUCE COHEN (LIB) 880 0.9%

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Just as comparison, November 2004, during the general elections

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE 48th District
Vote Count Percentage
CHRISTOPHER COX (REP) 189004 65.0%
JOHN GRAHAM (DEM) 93525 32.2%
BRUCE COHEN (LIB) 8343 2.9%

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than even limbaugh. Bunch of nutcakes.

Check out their national platform on the family - :puke: alert

http://www.usiap.org/Beliefs/Platform02Family.html

got a combined higher % of the vote than Cox last year.

Orange County is GOP land.

At least Young didn't finish third.

as opposed to 2004 which was a Presidential one where many, especially red Orange County in Blue CA do.

Still, as I have said from the beginning. There are 100,000 registered Democrats in the district. If only half of them were voting for Young, he would have won.

The message, really is that, first, the Republican National committee was scared enough to throw $250K into this race that normally the Republican would just sail through. Second - getting out the votes should be the most important goal next year... once the message is clear. I think that Steve Young's message started a bit late.

Something's very fishy.

Apparently, he's the founder of "The Minutemen". You know the group of whackjobs "guarding" our border with Mexico.

This guy apparently was taking away Republican votes and a lot of "undecided voters".

http://www.jimgilchrist.com/