This would be an incredible upset. We have been working sooo hard, and we're so hopeful because it's about time a Democrat gets in.===========================================================================================
GOP stronghold has a struggle on its hands in McClintock vs. Brown
By Peter Hecht
phecht@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, Nov. 01, 2008 | Page 1A
Northern California's 4th Congressional District ordinarily wouldn't be anything other than an easy vote generator for Republicans in one of the stoutest GOP regions in the state.But in this anything-but-ordinary political year, the stretch run of the race between Republican Tom McClintock, a renowned conservative lion, and Democrat Charlie Brown, a decorated Air Force veteran, is emerging as one of the country's most closely watched congressional contests.The national Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is taking aim at the sprawling district – extending from the Sacramento suburbs to the Oregon border – as a prime target in its national "Red to Blue" strategy to turn Republican seats Democratic. And the Republican National Congressional Committee is running ads to defend its turf.
So McClintock, a state lawmaker from Thousand Oaks, fires up supporters to work voter precincts in Placer County by warning about the dire consequences of "both an Obama presidency and a Pelosi Congress."
"This election in the 4th District may decide whether we will return to our traditional founding freedoms or whether the nation will move to European socialism," he declares. :eyes:
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Brown, a district resident from Roseville, stirs an outdoor gathering under the ponderosa pines of Nevada County for a campaign "to open up this district so that good people can run for office no matter what political party they're from."
He tells supporters he can win
in a district where Republicans hold a 17 percentage-point voter registration advantage. He implores them not to take "anything for granted" and warns that he expects to be targeted by a blitz of last-minute GOP mailers.
In this district where a powerful Republican incumbent, Rep. John Doolittle, routinely won re-election by 20 points or more, few are taking anything for granted. Two years after Doolittle narrowly defeated Brown, 49 percent to 46 percent, the congressman is now retiring amid a long-running FBI investigation into his ties to disgraced Washington, D.C., lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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