Who won the California (Busby?) election?

[poleepafrog]

[KingFlorez]

1. Nobody, there is a runoff

[bluerum]

7. Do they continue to campaign? It seems to me that 44% is a huge

victory.

I expect less of a turnout in the runoff vote, but that she will maintain her margin.

[Greeby]

2. It moves into the traditional two-horse race

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francine_Busby

These are the candidates who go forward to the June 6 run-off

Francine Busby* Democratic 56,147 43.92%
Brian Bilbray* Republican 19,366 15.15%
Paul King* Libertarian 772 0.60%

[saltpoint]

3. Francine Busby got about 44%. Of the closely-bunched Republicans

Bilbray was the leader, so those two face off in a second election on June 6th.

[flyingfysh]

4. you can find details here

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/13/washington/13dems.html

WASHINGTON, April 12 — The race to succeed former Representative Randy Cunningham, a California Republican who pleaded guilty to corruption charges, took a complicated turn for both parties on Tuesday after a crowded primary in which a Democrat came in first, but did not win enough votes to escape a runoff.

The muddled outcome left Democrats and liberal activist groups cheered by the strong showing of the Democrat, Francine Busby, a school board member, but debating whether to pump significant resources into the June 6 primary. The district is strongly Republican — President Bush drew 55 percent of the vote there in 2004 — and Ms. Busby, in winning 44 percent of the vote, benefited from a splintered field that included 14 Republicans.

The race has been closely watched by both sides for a clue to the extent corruption investigations of Congressional Republicans could help Democrats in their drive to take back the House. Ms. Busby said Wednesday that she thought her strong showing suggested the power of the attack concerning the issue of ethics.

"This is a message that works," she said in a telephone news conference. "It is resonating with people across the country."

(rest at web site)

[poleepafrog]

5. THANKS EVERYONE!

I live kinda far from CA, but I was following it.

[poleepafrog]

6. dupe-sorry!

[Peace Patriot]

8. This was HUGE news favorable to the Democrats--Busby getting 44% in

a Repub district, and the Repub leader getting only 15%. The war profiteering corporate news monopolies played it way down. They said things like Busby got "only" 44%. Unbelievable. We really do have to distrust every word they write. Truth to tell, absent rightwing Bushite controlled "trade secret" vote tabulation, she probably won hands down (no runoff). But they won't tell you that either--who's "counting" the votes behind a veil of secrecy.

[Bozita]

9. BigBearJohn said the saturation swiftboating of Busby has begun

Here's his thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

BigBearJohn (1000+ posts)  Fri Apr-14-06 10:25 PM
Original message

Repukes are running attack ads every 15 mins slinging mud at FrancineBusby
So far, I haven't heard any pro-Busby ads (I live in San Diego).
It's amazing. Every other commercial is swift boating Busby.
Sickening. I sure hope she has the money to counter these
ads.