Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman captured 69% of the vote, besting Republican rival Navraj Singh’s 25%. In 2006, Sherman defeated his Republican opponent by a 68.8% to 31.2% margin.
Rep. David Dreier, a Republican who fended off Democrat Russ Warner in his Foothill district, proved victorious by a 13-point margin, compared with his 19-point triumph in 2006.
“We saw the tsunami going across the U.S.,” said Hector Barajas, communications director for the California Republican Party. “You lick your wounds and you come back and get ready for work again.”
In the state House, Assemblymen Paul Krekorian and Anthony Portantino moved to unequivocal victories by 35.7 points and 34.4 points, respectively — larger than their 2006 election margins.
State Sen.-elect Carol Liu took 67.2% of the vote, against just 24.9% for her Republican opponent, Teddy Choi.
Poll workers throughout Burbank and Glendale — as in the rest of Los Angeles County — experienced a surge in young, mostly Democratic voters Tuesday, officials said.
Registered Democrats in the county increased by 110,153 voters since the 2004 presidential race and outnumbered Republicans this year by a more than 2-1 margin, according to figures released by the county’s Registrar-Recorder.
At Burbank’s most crowded polling place Tuesday, inspectors noticed an unprecedented surge in younger voters at City Hall, who helped hand Democrats their convincing wins and aided Obama, who cruised to a better than 24-point win in California — the highest margin of victory in the state for a Democratic presidential candidate in 76 years.
Republicans are pointing to one seat in the Legislature they did pick up — the Assembly’s 30th District in the Central Valley. But four Democrats in the Legislature defeated Republican incumbents.
