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...Overseer Bruce M. Alberts ’60, a professor at the University of California at San Francisco, writes in an e-mail that he has noticed a change in the Board’s relationship with the Corporation...
...both a former Congressman and a lobbyist, held the two least popular credentials imaginable in 2006 - won by a surprisingly comfortable four-point margin over Democrat Francine Busby, a local school board member, his party was quick to exult. "National Democrats did not discover their shock wave in San Diego," National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds, who runs the House election effort for the GOP, said in a statement that landed in the e-mail boxes of political reporters shortly after dawn on Wednesday. "National Democrats must come to terms with the fact that momentum for the midterm elections...
That sound you heard on Wednesday morning was a big sigh of relief from Republicans across the country over the results of a special election in a San Diego County congressional district where Republicans usually win without breaking a sweat. After ex-Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham earlier this year pleaded guilty to bribery and tax evasion, and was given an eight-year prison sentence, the election to name his replacement was watched by both parties as both a crucial test of how badly Republicans are likely to fare in this fall's midterms - and of whether the Democrats' recent "culture...
...question remains whether they will be able to spend that kind of money in 40 or 50 districts," said Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "The Republicans simply do not have the resources to cover the waterfront, if this is what it takes to defend San Diego...
...San Diego race wasn't the only one on Tuesday that the Dems had to spin. In a district north of San Francisco, Steve Filson, one of the candidates handpicked by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee looking to help retake the House, lost badly - the second candidate picked by DCCC head Rahm Emanuel who has lost in a primary this year. (The first: Ohio's Joe Sulzer...