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In 2006, the Democratic wave that swept across the nation stopped at the Sierra.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger trounced Democrat Phil Angelides atop the California ticket and not a single legislative seat flipped to the Democrats.
But with one day until the 2008 elections, California Democrats are sounding increasingly confident they will pick up seats in the state Assembly this time around
"The landscape looks like people want Democrats to represent them," said Matt Reilly, the director of Assembly Democrats' election efforts, last month.
The map of competitive Assembly seats tilts heavily in the Democrats' favor this year. As do new voter registrations.
Democrats are defending only a single seat -- that of termed-out Assemblywoman Nicole Parra -- while on the offensive in nearly a half-dozen districts.
The key GOP-held seats up for grabs are AD 15 (Guy Houston), AD 78 (Shirley Horton) and AD 80 (Bonnie Garcia).
With the GOP incumbents termed out of all of those races, Democrats believe they have a legitimate shot at all three.
Meanwhile, with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama up by 22 points in the latest Field Poll, Democrats are trying to further expand the playing field.
Independent spending has surged in AD 10 (Alan Nakanishi), and the party has sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars into AD 26 (Greg Aghazarian).
All told, the party would need to pick up six seats in the Assembly to achieve a two-thirds supermajority -- still a big long-shot.
Last week, Art Torres, the chair of the state Democratic party, wrote on a liberal blog about the downsides of an Obama landslide.
"Is there a chance, even a small chance, that if (Democrats) hadn't voted by 6 p.m., people you know just might not vote at all? Maybe they'll just be tired after a long day at work," he wrote.
Those are the kinds of fears party leaders love to have.
Underdog Democratic candidate Linda Jones is running to replace termed-out Assemblywoman Sharon Runner of Lancaster. She is up against GOP nominee Steve Knight, the son of the former state lawmaker, in a district that hasn't has a Democrat in a generation.
But Jones is still hoping.
"I've got my bogeyboard ready for the Obama-Biden wave," she says.
Photo: Billabong Odyssey invitee Californian Mike Parsons is hoping to ride a 100-foot wave. Credit: Bill Sharp/ AP Photo
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