Democratic candidate and voting rights advocate Senator Debra Bowen was officially endorsed by the San Francisco Chronicle this morning after an extensive public debate before their editorial board last Wednesday.

The Chronicle advocates:

"In Bowen, California would have a secretary of state who is asking the right questions and has the grounding to know when she is getting straight answers. She recognizes that a conversion to electronic voting systems must be accompanied by appropriate safeguards -- such as paper trails and open source software -- that maintain public confidence in the electoral process."

A new article in the San Jose Mercury News finally acknowledges what we have known all along:  

Debra Bowen will win on November 7th and this race is perhaps the more interesting of the California Statewides

"As elections go, the campaign for secretary of state is generally a sleeper: Voters rarely pay attention to the issues -- and the incumbent almost always wins.

But this year's challenge between incumbent Bruce McPherson, a Santa Cruz Republican, and state Sen. Debra Bowen, D-Redondo Beach, is shaping up to be one of the more competitive races."  

Believe it or not the political climate in Kansas is such that the democratic challenger is beating a 6 term incumbent.

Yes that's right folks Nancy Boyda - is beating republican SUV Driving Runner Jim Ryun.  

Boyda did a news conference today announcing her poll

"Ladies and gentlemen, the race is on," Boyda said at a news conference. "David is beating Goliath. Grassroots democracy is beating big money."

A new ad running by Rep. Jim Ryun (R-KS) which you can see here:



Advocates Jim Ryun's hard work on creating sound energy policy and fuel independence that is consistently blocked by liberal environmental extremists.  

Funny thing... he talks all about his hard work for the environment all the while gassing up his gas guzzling SUV - careful Jim... your right wing conservatism is showing!