Sources from Washington have stated that two Democrat members are pitting against each other in a race to replace retiring California Senator Barbara Boxer and the two candidates are Kamala Harris, the state’s attorney general, and Representative Loretta Sanchez, Real Clear Politics reported on Wednesday.
Harris has finished with 40% of the vote in the primary, compared to 18 per cent for Sanchez and 8 per cent for Duf Sundheim, the leading Republican candidate and Henry Waxman, a former Democratic congressman from California, called the primary system a “failure” as there are a lot of people angry in the political party that’s not represented in the November ballot, because they really don’t have anybody to vote for.
Eric Schickler, who heads University of California, Berkeley’s political science department has stated that this could be a problem for Sanchez, whose strategy depends on getting independents, Republicans, and Latino Democrats and according to a USC/Los Angeles Times poll, Harris leads Sanchez, 47% to 22% , but 64% of Republicans have surveyed in the poll indicated they will not vote.
