03/03/2004: "California election results"

Well, we've voted yet again. Hard to say what it all means. Of course it'll be GW vs. Kerry for president. That was such a big surprise .

The race I'm really looking at is the California Senate race. Barbara Boxer should never have been elected as a senator. The only reason she is a senator is because of the big duel-election all those years ago when Boxer and Feinstien ran together for both spots. Boxer couldn't have run a good campaign of her own to get herself out of a wet cardboard box (bad pun definitely intended). She rode both the Feinstein coat tails and her campaign engine like a cheap carnival ride.

Anyway, once she got in, she's been able to hold her seat in our liberal state. But the political tide in the state is turning and untra-liberals are starting to lose their comfortable electorate. So the big race I was intersted in was the republican primary for the senate seat. And the winner is: Bill Jones... Bill Jones!?! Who the heck is Bill Jones? I've never heard of him. I was hoping that Howard Kaloogian would win. He went on the local Catholic radio station to state his goals as a senator. He sounded really good. Unfortunately, he got 3rd and 11%.

Any other thoughts on who won and should have won? Here is a rundown on the results for the state.