After Steve Cooley had been lodged in the lead for most of last week, by Friday when a bunch of LA votes were counted, Kamala Harris suddenly passed Cooley, but she only pulled a little over 5,000 votes ahead.
Saturday and Sunday her lead widened to a little more than 14,000. (This morning it’s at 13, 796.)
As the provisional ballots continue to be tabulated, everyone is watching is the disposition of the 200,000 or so still to be counted in LA County, by far the largest pocket of votes still outstanding.
On the other hand, Cooley is LA’s hometown guy, so…..
And so many of us will remain glued to the slow motion spectacle as it unfolds.
Here’s the chart for the areas have yet to be counted.
The vote has to be certified by December 10, so you’ll be happy to know this cannot go on forever.
This weekend, the LA Weekly noted that the Harris and Cooley’s campaigns were each accusing the other of bad behavior in the tabulating process. The story is here.
I really hope she wins. She just seems like such a better person than Cooley.