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    California's Rohrabacher not conceding despite media's call of Democrat victory

    California's Rohrabacher not conceding despite media's call of Democrat victory

    By Dom Calicchio | Fox News
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    With tens of thousands of votes remaining to be counted, the campaign of longtime Republican U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California was not conceding defeat Saturday after the Associated Press called the House in favor of his Democratic Party opponent.

    The AP declared that Harley Rouda, 56, a Republican-turned-Democrat who criticized Rohrabacher for his skepticism over climate change and depicted him as an out-of-touch abettor in Washington gridlock, had won Tuesday's election in California's 48th Congressional District in Orange County, south of Los Angeles.

    The AP projection of a Rouda win came several hours after the Democrat declared victory on his own, the Los Angeles Times reported.

    With the vote count still underway, Rouda's advantage was growing Saturday, to 52 percent of the vote and about 8,500 more votes than Rohrabacher.

    But Rohrabacher's campaign said in a statement that tens of thousands of ballots remained uncounted, and the campaign would not have a statement until the vote count is complete. That could take as long as two weeks, Neal Kelly, Orange County's registrar of voters, told the Sacramento Bee.

    Rohrabacher, 71, a one-time speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, has served in the House since 1989. But in recent years California has become an increasingly blue state, with much dislike for President Trump -- and most elections in Orange County and elsewhere appeared to reflect that.

    Democrats had targeted seven GOP-held House districts in California this year that were carried by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, including Rohrabacher's 48th. A Rouda win would give them three of those seats, with the potential to pick up three more and pad their new majority in the House.

    Democrat Katie Porter is inching closer to Republican U.S. Rep. Mimi Walters in Orange County's 45th District. In the nearby 39th District held by retiring GOP Rep. Ed Royce his protege, Republican Young Kim, sees her lead over Democrat Gil Cisneros tightening.

    In central California's farm belt, Democrat Josh Harder grabbed a nearly 2-point lead after a vote count update Friday after trailing Rep. Jeff Denham in the 10th District.

    For state Republicans, a Rohrabacher defeat would represent another stinging blow for a party that has seen its fortunes wither for years. Democrats hold every statewide office, both chambers of the Legislature and a 3.7 million advantage in voter registrations. With a Rouda win, Democrats will hold at least a 42-11 edge in California U.S. House seats.

    Behind the shift: A surge in immigrants in recent decades transformed the state and its voting patterns. In Orange County, largely white, conservative homeowners once delivered winning margins for GOP candidates year after year. But most of the state's new voters, Hispanics and Asians, are Democrats or independents.

    It's also hard to discount the influence of Trump, who lost California by over 4 million votes in 2016. California is home to the so-called Trump "resistance," which has stood in opposition to his policies on the environment and immigration.

    Rohrabacher reflects the dramatic shift of fortunes in Orange County: He was re-elected by nearly 17 points just two years but met his end when Democrats backed a wealthy, pro-business moderate in real estate developer Rouda.

    If Rohrbacher leaves Congress, his departure will mark a milestone of sorts. He's one of the last members of Congress who served in the Reagan administration.

    The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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    All California votes need to be investigated for fraud.

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    Calif.'s Dana Rohrabacher loses seat in Congress

    Dana Rohrabacher, quirky US congressman fond of Putin, loses seat




    AFPNovember 10, 2018

    California Republican Dana Rohrabacher loses House seat
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    Washington (AFP) - Representative Dana Rohrabacher, whose quixotic foreign policy campaigns made him persona non grata in Pakistan and Afghanistan and who became a rare US defender of Vladimir Putin, has lost his seat after 30 years.

    The 71-year-old Republican, whose exploits have included grabbing a gun to join Afghanistan's anti-Soviet mujahedin, was projected Saturday to have lost, four days after midterm elections in which Democrats seized the House of Representatives.


    Harley Rouda, a Democratic real estate developer, led Rohrabacher by four percentage points in a district in southern California's Orange County, a longtime conservative bastion that gave rise to Republicans Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan but where greater ethnic diversity has contributed to a shift toward Democrats.


    After working as a speechwriter to Reagan, Rohrabacher was elected to Congress in 1988 on an aggressively anti-communist platform.


    Yet his stern views belied a quintessentially Californian quirkiness as he relished surfing, playing guitar and, well before the issue was mainstream, supported legal marijuana, saying he himself had done "everything but drink the bong water."


    Rohrabacher's joy in the limelight caused many colleagues to see him as a rabble-rouser -- but his statements had diplomatic repercussions.

    - Putin's favorite? -

    Pakistan lodged protests and street demonstrations broke out after Rohrabacher in 2012 proposed a resolution -- non-binding and with little chance of congressional approval -- calling for the independence of Baluchistan, scene of a long-running separatist insurgency.


    Rohrabacher was also refused entry to Afghanistan after infuriating then president Hamid Karzai by calling him corrupt.


    Rohrabacher, whose office was decorated with memorabilia from briefly fighting alongside Afghan guerrillas, met in 2001 with the then Taliban foreign minister and later joined the left in opposing US troop increases, seeing Karzai's government as compromised.


    More recently, Rohrabacher has been dubbed Putin's favorite congressman.

    The onetime Cold Warrior has argued that radical Islam, not Russia, has become the biggest global threat and that Putin was an ally.


    After Donald Trump's surprise election in 2016, speculation mounted that the new president -- who has also voiced respect for Putin -- would name Rohrabacher as US ambassador.

    However more traditional policymakers remain in charge.


    Rohrabacher said he met Putin, then the deputy mayor of Saint Petersburg on a visit to Washington, in the 1990s and got into a drunken argument over who won the Cold War.


    "So we decided to settle it like men do when they've had too much to drink in the pub," Rohrabacher recalled in a radio interview.


    They arm-wrestled. And who won? "He put me down in a millisecond," Rohrabacher acknowledged.

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    I guess Rohrabacher, like Trump, should keep his Putin praises private. Regardless of what Rohrabacher or Trump think of Putin, he is not praised or admired by most Americans and for good reason.

    I'm certainly not saying Rohrabacher's admiration of Putin is what cost him the election, but I'm betting it didn't help any.

    Unfortunately for us, I guess it's not surprising that liberalism has overtaken Rohrbacher's district considering it's in California.

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    Blue waves in urban North Carolina help Democrats break GOP ‘supermajorities’

    BY JIM MORRILL AND PAUL A. SPECHT
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    November 07, 2018 05:42 PM
    Updated November 07, 2018 08:20 PM

    North Carolina Democrats loosened the GOP grip on the General Assembly on Tuesday with help from an unlikely place — metropolitan suburbs that were once reliably Republican.

    That was one of a confluence of factors that helped Democrats virtually sweep urban counties such as Mecklenburg and Wake and defeat GOP lawmakers in other urban counties.


    Democrats broke Republican legislative “supermajorities” that diluted the power of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper by making it easy to override his vetoes.


    Though some races could face recounts, Democrats unofficially picked up nine seats in the House and six in the Senate. Republicans still have majorities but not the three-fifths needed to override vetoes.


    While Republicans held on to win the state’s three most-watched congressional contests,
    Democrats swept to convincing victories in the state’s urban centers.

    ▪ In Mecklenburg, Democrats defeated four GOP lawmakers — Sen. Jeff Tarte and Reps. John Bradford, Andy Dulin and Scott Stone. Sen. Dan Bishop and Rep. Bill Brawley could be the only Republicans left in the 17-member delegation. And Brawley, leading by just 52 votes, faces a possible recount.

    Democrats also unseated three GOP county commissioners, sweeping the nine-member board.

    ▪ In Wake, Democrats flipped seats held by Republican Reps. Chris Malone of Wake Forest, John Adcock of Holly Springs and budget writer Nelson Dollar of Cary. In the Senate, Sam Searcy beat Republican Tamara Barringer of Cary. Sen. John Alexander, who narrowly beat Democrat Mack Paul, is now the lone Republican in the 16-member delegation.

    The county’s transformation started in 2011, when Democrats took control of the Wake school board. It continued when they swept the county commissioners’ races in 2014 and chased Republicans off the Raleigh City Council in 2015.

    ▪ In Cumberland County, Democrat Kirk DeViere beat GOP Sen. Wesley Meredith. GOP Sen. Trudy Wade fell to Democrat Michael Garrett in Guilford County. And Democrat Harper Peterson edged GOP Sen. Michael Lee in New Hanover County.
    GOP ‘disconnect’

    In Mecklenburg, southeast Charlotte and the county’s northern suburbs have long been Republican territory. But the GOP lawmakers defeated Tuesday all came from those areas.

    “In 2018 you saw the suburbs turn into two groups,” said John Hood, chairman of the board of the conservative John Locke Foundation. “Inner suburbs in Wake, Mecklenburg, Guilford and New Hanover turned more Democratic.”


    Political scientist Michael Bitzer of Catawba College said suburbs in metropolitan counties have grown more diverse while those in surrounding counties remain more conservative. In the 9th District, for example, Democrat Dan McCready carried most of southeast Charlotte while apparent winner Mark Harris won heavily in suburban Union County.


    “That classic southern wedge of Republicanism . . . has been shifting over several elections,” he said.

    “This year it was very clear . . . . that that is no longer a Republican stronghold.”

    Other factors contributed.
    Democrats ran strong and well-funded campaigns to “break the majority.” The party poured millions of dollars into urban legislative races. At least two Democratic legislative candidates — Rachel Hunt in Mecklenburg and Sam Searcy in Wake — raised more than $1 million. Hunt narrowly trails Brawley in House District 103. Searcy edged Barringer in Senate District 17.

    And McCready’s multi-million dollar campaign helped turn out Democratic voters in several legislative races. And according to Hood, GOP messaging — ads about the “caravan” of Central American refugees for example — didn’t appeal to moderate suburban voters.


    “There was a disconnect between what Republicans were emphasizing in their campaign messages and what those swing suburban voters wanted to hear,” he said.


    In Wake County, Democrats have been winning with help from unaffiliated voters.


    Between 2010 and 2018, Wake added more than 110,000 unaffiliated voters. Over the same period, it added about 30,000 registered Democrats and 11,000 registered Republicans. Democratic Wake Sheriff candidate Gerald Baker also benefited from the ACLU spending $100,000 on an ad campaign to raise awareness about Sheriff Donnie Harrison cooperating with ICE.


    Virginia Reed, executive director of the Wake Democratic Party, said voters were turned off by the “petty games” GOP leaders used to weaken Cooper. Voters saw the six proposed constitutional amendments “blatant power grabs,” she said.


    “That was the last straw for a lot of first-time voters and voters who split their ballots or switched entirely from red to blue,” Reed said.


    Lawrence Shaheen, a Republican consultant from Charlotte, suspects Trump and other prominent firebrands have soured moderate voters that the party has historically won.

    “We lost voters who had traditionally voted Republican because of the economy, but can’t stand the type of politics we’ve got at the moment,” Shaheen said. They may hold conservative views, “but they also want to feel good about who they vote for.”

    Urban-rural divide


    The sharper partisan lines around metropolitan counties could exacerbate the existing urban-rural divide.

    Rolin Mainuddin, a political science expert at N.C. Central University, says urban and rural areas are responding differently to identity politics and American’s changing demographics.

    While urbanites tend to value multiculturalism, “white, rural people see cultural change as an intrusion into their way of life,” he said.


    “It’s not just an economic and job issue, it’s a threat to their identity and existence as Americans,” Mainuddin said. “So if someone talks to them as if they matter, they’ll be attracted to them. Trump has a populist appeal.”


    Some urban Democrats fear than GOP legislative leaders could be less likely to listen to them.

    Pat Cotham, a Mecklenburg Democrat and county commissioner, said she’s concerned about the county losing clout in Raleigh with a delegation composed almost entirely of legislators from the minority party. “They’re not going to have the power the Republicans did,” she said. “How much will we be listened to now?”

    Bishop, soon to be Mecklenburg’s lone GOP senator, said, “Having only one Republican Mecklenburg member in each chamber might facilitate communicating.”


    “But to serve Charlotte’s interests adequately,” he added, “my Democratic delegation colleagues will have to set aside grandstanding and resume-building long enough to fashion policy that can gain majority support.”

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