"Given the Democratic leanings of Harman's district—registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 45% to 28%, and Barack Obama carried it by 30 percentage points in the 2008 presidential election—the seat is likely to remain in Democratic hands.
"'If there is going to be a battle, it will be a battle between two top-flight Democrats,' said Eric Bauman, chairman of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party.
"But the race could become a 'battle for the soul' of the party between the 'progressive left and more conventional liberal Democrats,' said Allan Hoffenblum, a former GOP consultant and publisher of the Target Book, which handicaps legislative races."
Jean Merl and Richard Simon in the Los Angeles Times report reacations to Jane Harman announcing that she will resign her seat in the House of Representatives.
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