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Leading Off
●Orange County, CA Board of Supervisors: Orange County Democrats have been locked out of power for generations in this longtime conservative bastion, but they'd take their first majority in living memory on the five-member Board of Supervisors if incumbent Katrina Foley wins a difficult race against Republican state Sen. Pat Bates. That's not the only big race for this officially nonpartisan body, though, as prominent local Democrats are backing Buena Park Mayor Sunny Park's intra-party challenge against Supervisor Doug Chaffee, who has often sided with his GOP colleagues.