New election updates posted yesterday by San Diego and Orange Counties have put Republican Steve Cooley (3,502,021) ahead of Democrat Kamala Harris (3,485,926) in the close race to be the next State Attorney General.
Cooley would be the only statewide Republican winner if he hangs on, and the early favorite for Governor in 2014. Harris also might be gubernatorial material if she wins this year.
A win for Cooley means a pro-Death Penalty, conservative legal approach in state legal issues, while victory for Harris, DA of San Francisco, would continue the liberal philosophy of retiring AG Jerry Brown.
Harris led the statewide tally the last 2 days, until Orange and San Diego counties added new absentee vote updates late Friday afternoon, thus “flipping” the race for now into the Republican column.
Cooley has large leads in So Cal areas like San Diego (+88,529), Orange (+207,686), Riverside (+77,656) and San Bernadino (+48,883). Harris has major advantages in San Francisco (+89,216), Alameda (+123,781) and Los Angeles (+261,255)
Stay tuned to SD Rostra over the next 2 weeks as this nail-biter plays itself out…. I predict Cooley will eventually win the AG contest, just as Dan Lungren finally edged then-San Francisco DA Arlo Smith, for
California state AG back in 1990.