Democrats press for congressional seats in once-red Orange county: ‘If we sit on our asses, we lose’

The once solidly Republican bastion in southern California is up for grabs, and Democrats are campaigning hard

In an industrial business park in Orange county - the affluent, largely suburban slice of southern California wedged between Los Angeles and San Diego - Dave Min was feeling the weight of the world last weekend.

If we sit on our asses for the next 10 days, we lose," the Democratic candidate for California's 47th congressional district told a roomful of Asian American supporters at his campaign headquarters. We need to get out that vote."