Gene Maddaus of the Daily Breeze reports on the concession by Jenny Oropeza to Laura Richardson in the special election for the 37th congressional district. Turnout was 11 percent.

Whether it is in developing countries or urban America, getting people out of the informal economy and into the formal one is really about helping entrepreneurs help themselves. Instead of charity, the tools that make this happen range from legal reform to microloans to, above all else, education. Laura Novak of the New York Times […]

I’ve mentioned that I believe David Zahniser is as good as it gets when it comes to political reporting in Los Angeles. Kevin Roderick blogs in LA Observed about Zahniser’s move from a weekly to the LA Times:
Now this should get interesting. LA Weekly political reporter David Zahniser, the hottest property on the City Hall […]

University of Wisconsin poli sci professor Charles H. Franklin takes a look at the presidential primary polls that actually mean something:
It is time to turn to state level polling for president. Obviously this is where the nomination is won (and mostly lost). While I believe national polling is valuable, it is Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, […]

My good friend Martin Hamburger recently showed me some spots he did for the Horace Hagedorn Foundation. As a connoisseur of political spots who also happens to be the son of immigrants, I think both are great!

Josh Kraushaar reports in The Politico on very different poll results released by the campaigns of Jenny Oropeza (pollster: Greenberg Quinlan Rosner) and Laura Richardson (Fairbank Maslin Maullin):

Based on my experience in a recent assembly race, I bet each pollster has very different expectations of Latino turnout.
[Update (6/24/07):] The district’s local paper - The Daily […]

Much has been made in the national press of Governor Schwarzenegger’s “post-partisan” efforts to reach out to the Democrats who control the California Legislature and to the green lobby in DC, but less attention has been paid to the ire this is earning him with the very red Republicans who control the state party machinery. […]

Third in the series…

Vaughn Ververs of CBS News gives his take on the spot:
Humor — With A Point? Bill Richardson is back with a third installment of his popular “job interview” ads. In this one, Richardson explains his commitment to combating global warming to a clearly uninterested job interviewer. The ad is running in Iowa […]

At midnight last night, Mayor Adrian Fenty took over the public schools of Washington DC. David Nakamura of the Washington Post reports on Fenty’s choice for superintendent:
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has chosen to fire D.C. School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey and replace him with the founder of a New York-based teacher-training organization, a dramatic step […]

The special election in California’s 37th congressional district is a race with enough Latino voters to suggest that the political professionals there would maximize their chances of delivering a win for Senator Jenny Oropeza or Assemblywoman Laura Richardson if they gave Latinos more than one banner point in their polling crosstabs. An article in Congressional […]