CA-08: Republican Paul Cook to retire

[RandySF]

Bulletin on my phone.

[hlthe2b]

1. Another one bites the dust... how many retiring R's is that now?

[OliverQ]

7. 16 in the House.

[bearsfootball516]

2. This used to be Nancy Pelosi's old district.

Then new districts were drawn and it became a safe R district. He won in 2016 62-37.

[Indykatie]

3. It Takes Some Deep Gerrymandering to Carve Up a CA District that Went 62% for the GOP.

I'm interested to find out what the 2018 vote was in a Blue Wave year. BRB s they say.

Edit: There was no Dem on the 2018 ticket. Cook took 60% of the vote against Tim Donnelly another Republican. Is CA the only state where you can end up with 2 Dems or 2 GOP in the General election? That always strike me as being so weird.

[Brother Buzz]

6. One could make the argument California is the LEAST Gerrymandered state thanks in part to...

believe it or not, Arnold Schwarzenegger

When California Citizens Redistricting Commission redrew the map, they just renumbered ALL the districts, starting from the far north and worked south.

[cally]

4. Nancy Pelosi is from San Francisco. This is desert, sparsely populated

Country and very republican

[NewJeffCT]

5. and it was still 60-40 last year between TWO REPUBLICANS

with the CA primary system, the top Democrat - Marge Doyle - finished third behind Cook and Donnelly, two Republicans in the "jungle" primary.

so I'd say it's pretty safe R unless there is a Democratic celebrity type that lives in the area and is willing to run?