(Newport Beach) Daily Pilot: Election wakes up

Election wakes up

Following October's primary, candidacies were mostly dormant. Now, the final push to the Dec. 6 poll begins.

By Alicia Robinson, Daily Pilot
Published November 16, 2005

After a brief period of hibernation -- from about the Oct. 4 primary until last week -- candidates for the 48th Congressional District seat are coming out of their caves.

The question is whether they can wake anyone else in time for the Dec. 6 general election. The U.S. House seat was left open when Rep. Chris Cox, who held it since 1988, became chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in August.

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Since illegal immigration became the latest political football, the media has been all over it, said William Gheen, president of North Carolina-based group Americans for Legal Immigration. The group has promoted Gilchrist's candidacy.

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DISTRICT VOTERS

On Tuesday the Orange County Registrar of Voters began mailing absentee ballots for the Dec. 6 Congressional special election. Here are the latest voter registration figures for the 48th Congressional District, which includes Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Irvine and all or part of nine other Orange County cities.

* Total registered voters in 48th Congressional District: 405,061
* Republicans: 202,684
* Democrats: 109,789
* Decline-to-state voters: 77,159
* American Independent Party members: 7,743
* Libertarian Party members: 2,834
* Green Party members: 2,373

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