Tom McClintock Lead Holding Up in California Congressional District 4

Team McClintock is exceedingly optimistic that Tom McClintock has beaten Charlie Brown in CA-4.

The latest batch from Nevada County dropped us by 60 votes, partially offset by a 30-vote gain out of El Dorado County, leaving us with a lead of 592 today.  Nevada County is rapidly running out of ballots – we estimate it has roughly 1,000 yet to count.  Everything else – approximately 25,000 more ballots — are from counties that we are carrying.

Butte and Placer counties comprise 23,000 of those ballots and are expected to release their numbers in a single batch when they complete their full counts later this week or early next.  In short, the fat lady hasn’t begun singing yet, but she’s on stage and appears to be wearing a McClintock button.

And, in the race to replace Tom McClintock in the California State Senate, apparently the Fat Lady has already sung.