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Surprisingly, on the morning after the election, we don't know who California's next Attorney General will be.  As to 9:45 a.m. PDT, the Secretary of State website shows Kamala Harris ahead by half a percent with 97.1% of precincts reporting, but the reporting problems are in San Bernadino and Riverside Counties, which have both gone heavily for Steve Cooley in the precincts that have reported.  Then there are lots of not-yet-counted mail-in ballots.  This could be a long one.

Update: With all the precincts reporting, Harris's lead has shrunk from 0.5% to 0.2%. Susan Ferriss of the Sacramento Bee reports:

Nicole Winger, spokeswoman for the Secretary of State's office, said the office asks counties to voluntarily provide estimates of unprocessed ballots by late Thursday after an election. By law, though, they have 28 days to report results.
"It would be safe to say there are at least several hundred thousand ballots still to be counted," Winger said. She said that after the 2008 general election that there were still 747,000 uncounted ballots the day after Tuesday balloting.

To make up a 14,838 vote deficit in 747,000 ballots, Cooley would need a 2% margin among the mail-in voters.  That is just what the last Field Poll said he had.

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