This race is very, very much winnable.

Why?  Turnout.  According to some experts, Tuesday’s vote may be a RECORD LOW TURNOUT.

With only 22% of vote by mail ballots turned in so far many people won’t vote at all and many more will bring their absentees with them on Election Day.  There are many reasons why, mainly the lack of any real serious race for governor on the Democrat side and the huge amounts of negative advertising in the Republican governor’s race combined with the lack of any real exciting propositions on the June ballot.

With the extremely low turnout, this leads one expert to say: “If the trend continues, it will be good news for candidates and causes that have worked seniors and party regulars especially hard.”  That would be our campaign.

I cannot overstate the importance of this — turnout completely overwhelms the polling models and will cause unexpected results on Election Day.  For instance, in our internal poll taken on May 19-20, we were leading in two interesting categories: those who hadn’t voted in the last two elections (a potential disaffected Tea Party surrogate population) and those who were absolutely committed to a specific candidate.

Also, the last Field Poll shows signs of major movement for us:

http://www.field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2338.pdf, with Fiorina at 37%, Campbell at 22% and DeVore at 19%, a more than doubling of support from the last poll taken in March.

More importantly, our positive name ID has spiked, as the Field Poll says: “DeVore is still the least known of the GOP senatorial candidates, with 51% of likely GOP primary voters unable to offer an opinion of him. However, among those able to rate him, opinions are very positive – 41% favorable and 8% unfavorable. This is a big improvement from last March when just 22% could rate him and opinions divided 11% positive and 11% negative.”

Lastly, we have two ads up on Fox News in half of the state, with ads running on major talk radio stations over large population areas too.  Our sign crews are very energetic and our call centers are working hard.

If team DeVore stays focused we will win this election.

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Last night I finished strong in a one hour debate with Tom Campbell and Carly Fiorina (to be broadcast Sunday morning — we’ll send you the media analysis when it comes in).

But I wanted to take a moment to type out some of my thoughts on the day’s news and provide you with an update on my campaign.

If you didn’t hear, Sarah Palin posted a Facebook message earlier yesterday about the California Republican primary.

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On April 22nd, 1981, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation in which he asked the American people to commemorate the “solemn anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps.” In doing so, he noted the other horrifying acts of 20th-century barbarism that preceded and succeed the Holocaust, including “the genocide of the Armenians before it.”

No American President since Reagan has had the simple courage to do the same. The Armenian Genocide that began 95 years ago today in 1915 — a historical fact uncontested by the mass of serious historians — is now a forbidden topic to the leader of the free world. It’s a risible state of affairs made possible by the intersection of three factors: Turkish determination to promulgate its national mythos in our own country, a misunderstanding of the American national interest, and a failure of American political courage.

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The passage of this phony healthcare “reform” is a tremendous blow to the cause of fiscal restraint, limited government, Constitutional principles, and free enterprise. In short, it strikes directly at America’s core principles. This is shameful moment in the history of our country — and especially the Democratic Party, which has apparently come unmoored from whatever remaining attachment it had to the ideals of our Founders. In place of a dedication to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” there is only a rapacious impulse to ever-expanded state control, and an avaricious imperative to seize ever-more of your rightful possessions.

The Democrats are beyond reason. They are beyond appeals to common sense and patriotism. The corrupt milieu that produced President Barack Obama has metastasized and seated itself in Washington, D.C. — and we saw it on full display in the razor-thin passage of this healthcare “reform.” Every trick, every pressure, every shameless deal was done. Down to perverting the rules of the American Congress, the Democrats stopped at nothing.

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Chuck DeVore appeared last night on FOXNews with Glenn Beck talking about the role of government and his race for the U.S. Senate. While reiterating his policy of not endorsing candidates, Beck declared: “You intrigue me.” Beck had Assemblyman DeVore on the program for two segments (they will play sequentially):

Early on the in the program Glenn listed the litany of liberal interest groups who have given Chuck DeVore a failing grade for his hundreds of votes in the California State Assembly. As he went down the list he handed Chuck his jar of jelly beans, a bottle of water, and even the infamous red phone. Chuck intoned: “I don’t want the red phone” to which Beck chuckled: “They never call…”

Beck seem unabashed sharing his affinity for the Assemblyman especially as Chuck related his feelings about the history of the progressive movement.

Bottom line: Chuck DeVore is indeed the tea party candidate and, as George Will declared on Sunday, will be the Republican nominee.

Justin
Director, New Media
DeVore for California

Chuck DeVore (candidate for U.S. Senate) and his wife Diane took a few moments on Twitter last night to discuss their 22nd wedding anniversary.

You can follow the thread below:

	22 years ago tonight, there was a heck of a snowstorm in New York. The next day, Diane and I became husband and wife. Congrats, honey!
	@chuckdevore Where is my card? I got you a card. Are you making me a card? I don’t really want a card. I just wanna give you a hard time. :p
	@chuckdevore Cricket, cricket. Are you making that card? I am going back to facebook. Later!
	Don’t bother me about that anniversary card @dianedevore, else I may remember a card for you four days hence on the 13th…
	@chuckdevore Oh, now that’s a good one honey! L.O.L.!!!
	Hmmm, what happens on the 13th? Do you even remember @dianedevore???
	@chuckdevore Nope. O_o
	There the XXII Anniversary, and then there’s the BIG L.
	@chuckdevore Smooth. Sigh.
	@dianedevore But you don’t look a day over XXXIX honey!
	@chuckdevore That’s it. Where is the “report spam” button?
	** In lieu of flowers for @chuckdevore and @dianedevore ‘s wedding anniversary tomorrow, contribute here: http://bit.ly/8aZNU6 **
	** @jonmarkevans Funny! **
	@dianedevore Where is the “report spam” button?” Too late, you should have pushed it 22 yrs ago-before AlGore invented the Interwebs
	Isn’t this romantic @dianedevore? Tweeting to each other on the eve of our 22d Anniversary. At least I’m not in uniform or in Sacramento!
	@chuckdevore Yes, I should make a list of how we have spent the previous anniversaries!
	@dianedevore I remember that in 1991, for our third anniversary, I was on active duty with the U.S. Army.
	So, @chuckdevore, where are we bringing the girls for our anniversary tomorrow?
	@dianedevore Up in L.A. somewhere. Someplace funky. Maybe the La Brea Tar Pits; sinking mammoths are kind of romantic, no? Maybe you pick…
	@chuckdevore Nooooooooooo!
	** @chuckdevore That was adorable. @dianedevore **
	** @JennyErikson Thank you! And I am NOT going to the La Brea Tar Pits! **
	@dianedevore Silence… no sinking mammoths at La Brea? Back to the drawing board…
	@dianedevore I @dianedevore L @dianedevore O @dianedevore V @dianedevore E @dianedevore Y @dianedevore U @dianedevore D @dianedevore A @dianedevore N @dianedevore !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	@dianedevore try that again, sticky keys…
	@dianedevore I @dianedevore L @dianedevore O @dianedevore V @dianedevore E @dianedevore Y @dianedevore U @dianedevore D @dianedevore A @dianedevore N @dianedevore !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	What’s with the O’s and the I’s on Twitter, it is sabotaging my special message to @DianeDeVore !
	@chuckdevore that’s it. I am coming up there to look for the O, I and E on your keyboard.
	** @dianedevore Did Chuck buy his ʎɐqǝ uo pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ?? lol…at least he’s persistent! **
	** @jonmarkevans I think he’s using our daughter’s World of Warcraft keyboard. **
	@dianedevore I-L-O-V-E-Y-O-U-D-I-A-N-E
	@dianedevore L-I-B-E-R-A-L plot…
	Well, @DianeDevore, let’s wrap-up this pre-anniversary Twitter-fest, shall we? My gut hurts from laughing…

Senator Barbara Boxer is at it again. Whenever she disagrees with someone, her first instinct is to show them disrespect.  Whether Boxer’s dealing with former Secretary of State Condi Rice, Gen. Petraeus, BG Walsh, Harry Alford of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, or Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, you can be sure that her condescending manner will show through — or is she just mean?  Another video brought to you by the DeVore for California campaign:

Over the course of the past few weeks it has become obvious that President Obama distrusts those who serve us the most in our communities. It’s time for real change in Washington.

Assemblyman Chuck DeVore
http://chuckdevore.com/

What is it about liberals and the military?  Why are liberals uncomfortable with the military?  Why do some liberals apparently despise our military?  Is it because the armed services remind them that not every international dispute can be solved with soothing words uttered by a diplomat?  Is it because they view military expenditures as taking money away from greater health and welfare spending?

The latest liberal-military confrontation occurred in a hearing room on Capitol Hill on June 16, 2009 when Brigadier General Michael Walsh called California’s junior senator “Ma’am” – a perfectly acceptable sign of military respect to both a U.S. Senator or a senior female officer.  What happened next was remarkable.  Barbara Boxer immediately dressed down the general officer, saying, “I had a… You know… do me a favor, could you say ‘Senator’ instead of ‘Ma’am’ – it’s just a thing, I worked so hard to get that title so I’d appreciate it, yes thank you.”

According to the U.S. Army’s own guide to protocol, Members of the U.S. Senate should be verbally addressed as “Sir,” “Ma’am” or “Senator.”  So, General Walsh was simply following longstanding tradition.

Ironically, when addressing senior officers, with the exception of generals whom most junior officers and enlisted personnel will call “General,” the most respectful form of address is “Sir” or “Ma’am” with use of the actual rank in address being reserved oftentimes in situations when the senior officer has not yet earned respect from an enlisted person, as in “Yes, Lieutenant!” as opposed to “Yes, Ma’am!”

Of course, this wasn’t Barbara Boxer’s first confrontation with the U.S. military – not by a long shot.  Boxer cut her political teeth on the anti-Vietnam war protests around the Bay Area back in the day and never really changed her outlook on the uniformed defenders of the Constitution of the United States.  Who can forget her confrontation with American hero Gen. David Petraeus back in 2007 when she called him a liar and then wrote a now laughable blog for the Huffington Post on September 14, 2007 which she headlined, “General Petraeus, Take Off the Rose-Colored Glasses” calling for an immediate end (read: “defeat”) to the war in Iraq.

Perhaps it’s time for the Barbara Boxer to have a new title: “Ex-Senator.”

Mr. DeVore (R.-Irvine) represents about 500,000 people in Orange County California. He retired as a lieutenant colonel after 24-years of service in the Army National Guard and is a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010 against Barbara Boxer.  visit: http://chuckdevore.com