Barack Obama

The slate of California Republican Party designees to the Electoral College vote includes the current governor and two people reportedly eyeing that job in two years.

The party released Friday its list of people who would cast a vote for Republican presidential nominee John McCain in the Electoral College vote on Dec. 15.

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Survey USA poll of California voters who watched the second presidential debate.

Clear winner?

Barack Obama: 56%

John McCain: 26%

No clear winner: 18%

Which candidate was more angry?

Barack Obama: 18%

John McCain: 52%

Which candidate laid out a better vision for America's future?

Barack Obama: 62%

John McCain: 31%

Jim L. Brulte, former Republican leader of both the state Assembly and state Senate, said that congressional Republicans are resigned to a McCain defeat in November.

"They are resigned to a probable Obama victory," Brulte told The New York Times for a story that asks if the “Era of Dominance” is over for conservatives.

CABAZON - Tom DeLay was a supporter of Mike Huckabee in the Republican primaries, and likes his chances for the party's nomination in 2012 if John McCain loses in November, despite disagreeing with the former Arkansas governor on a number of issues.

"I've known Huckabee for 30 years," DeLay told PolitickerCA.com. "I know what kind of man he is, how strong he is. I didn't agree with him on global warming, but I can overlook that knowing what a great man he is."

CABAZON - Former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay thinks conservative Republicans will have their work cut out for them if John McCain is elected president in November.

"If McCain wins the election, we've got just as much work to do as if Obama won," DeLay, the former House majority leader from Texas, told PolitickerCA.com. "I've known McCain for 23 years, and McCain's hard to swallow."

Vets for Freedom has purchased $2.2 million of air time in California to launch an anti-Barack Obama ad campaign aimed more at garnering national attention than at swinging the state away from the Democratic presidential nominee, the political action committee’s chairman told PolitickerCA.com.

Vets for Freedom, the independent political action committee that has aired several anti-Barack Obama ads this year, has launched its first California ad campaign, spending $2.2 million on an ad that accuses the Democratic presidential nominee of skipping Senate votes and voting against funding the troops.

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