Day54 Friday 10/22/10

ran 2.6 miles

• California was the thirty-first state to join the union on September 9, 1850, two years after Wisconsin and eight years before Minnesota.

• Population, as of 2009, is 38,292,687. California has been the most populous state in America since 1970.

• Senators are Barbara Boxer (D) and Dianne Feinstein (D).

• Representatives are Michael Thompson (D), Walter Herger (R), Daniel Lungren (R), Tom McClintock (R), Doris Matsui (D), Lynn Woolsey (D), George Miller (D), Nancy Pelosi (D), Barbara Lee (D), John Garamendi (D), Jerry McNerney (D), Jackie Speier (D), Fortney Stark (D), Anna Eshoo (D), Michael Honda (D), Zoe Lofgren (D), Sam Farr (D), Dennis Cardoza (D), George Radanovich (R), Jim Costa (D), Devin Nunes (R), Kevin McCarthy (R), Lois Capps (D), Elton Gallegly (R), Howard McKeon (R), David Dreier (R), Brad Sherman (D), Howard Berman (D), Adam Schiff (D), Henry Waxman (D), Xavier Becerra (D), Judy Chu (D), Diane Watson (D), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D), Maxine Waters (D), Jane Harman (D), Laura Richardson (D), Grace Napolitano (D), Linda Sanchez (D), Edward Royce (R), Jerry Lewis (R), Gary Miller (R), Joe Baca (D), Ken Calvert (R), Mary Bono-Mack (R), Dana Rohrabacher (R), Loretta Sanchez (D), John Campbell (R), Darrell Issa (R), Brian Bilbray (R), Bob Filner (D), Duncan Hunter (R), and Susan Davis (D).

• California holds fifty-five electoral votes, which is 10% of America’s entire electoral college. Historically, the state has voted Republican from 1952 through 1988, except for the landslide loss of Barry Goldwater in 1964, and they have been Democratic since Bill Clinton was elected president.

California’s Senate race between Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, a former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, continues to be a steady tie in the polls. Rasmussen Reports latest survey shows Boxer with 48% and Fiorina with 46%. California is obviously considered one of the six toss-up states for the Senate race and a GOP win would be a monumental statement of how fed up this country is with Barack Obama and his radically democratic agenda. The simple fact that Boxer’s career as a Senator is being so severely threatened speaks for itself.

1,936.6 miles to go.