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Steve Cooley clings to slim lead in California attorney general’s race

The Los Angeles County district attorney is ahead of San Francisco Dist. Atty. Kamala Harris by about 28,500 votes out of more than 8 million counted so far.

By Jack Leonard, Los Angeles Times

Novembre 11, 2010

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley continued Wednesday to cling to a lead of about 28,500 votes in the race for California attorney general, secondo una revisione Times of aggiornamenti del sito da parte di tutti 58 contee.

Cooley’s margin has held relatively steady over San Francisco Dist. Atty. Kamala Harris during the last few days. The secretary of state reported late Wednesday that counties have more than 1 million ballots still to count statewide — mostly mail-in ballots that arrived too late to be counted on election day and provisional ballots.

The latest figures show Cooley, the Republican candidate, con 4,018,959 votes compared to 3,990,368 for Harris, the Democrat. The numbers provided by the counties in many cases are more up to date than those posted Wednesday night on the secretary of state’s website, which has lagged behind in the count.

Cooley trailed by 14,838 votes after the election night count, but passed Harris on Friday and has held a relatively steady lead since.

Ancora, officials from both campaigns warned against using the latest figures to predict who will win what has become the most closely contested race for the state’s attorney general in two decades.

Cooley campaign strategist Kevin Spillane said the gap between the two candidates probably would be less than a single percentage point.

“It’s going to be close,” ha detto. “Preferisco essere su che giù ... ma io non sono pronto a rompere i sigari ancora.”

Brian Brokaw, una campagna strategist Harris, ha detto che lo stato sta assistendo la stessa tendenza a contare che ha visto la notte delle elezioni: Repubblicani-appoggiano contee segnalazione primi conteggi per dare Cooley al comando seguito da contee democratiche-pendente che forniscono un gran numero di voti per Harris.

“Io non credo che nessuno sarà in grado di saltare a conclusioni fino a quando tutti i voti sono contati,” Brokaw ha detto.

jack.leonard @ latimes.com