GOP showing in Calif. worries party strategists
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Source: Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — If the future happens first in California, the Republican Party has a problem.
The nation's most populous state — home to 1 in 8 Americans — has entered a period of Democratic political control so far-reaching that the dwindling number of Republicans in the Legislature are in danger of becoming mere spectators at the statehouse.
Democrats hold the governorship and every other statewide office. They gained even more ground in Tuesday's elections, picking up at least three congressional seats while votes continue to be counted in two other tight races — in one upset, Democrat Raul Ruiz, a Harvard-educated physician who mobilized a district's growing swath of Hispanic voters, pushed out longtime Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack.
The party also secured a supermajority in one, and possibly both, chambers in the Legislature.
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I think California could show a path of how Democrats can do things right and how Republicans can do things wrong in a manner that leads to Republicans essentially driving themselves into distinction. Long before President Obama was elected, California Republicans in a blue state that was the home of both Nixon and Reagan became increasingly more and more extreme. Before Boehner embraced the idea of flirting with default, Republicans in the CA Legislature adopted the approach of complete obstructionism by using California 2/3 supermajority requirement to render Califoria virtually ungovernable for the past decade. Well, it took over a decade, but Califorians finally got tired of this ubstructionism.
The question is how long will it take before the rest of the Nation figures out that obstructionism is not governing. Of course, the media will prolong it by playing the false equivalency narrative. Plus, you have Fox News maintaining this parallel universe where Democrats are the ones supressing the vote, President Obama is a godless Muslim who was born in Kenya, and climate change is as much a myth as withcraft.
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They just elected a liberal Democrat as Mayor (Congressman Bob Filner) as well as a majority democratic City Council! The party registration in both city and county is now a majority Democratic, too. http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/11653
Republicans also failed in nearly every ballot initiative that they supported, including a measure aimed at destroying the power of unions. Instead, it motivated all those union folks to get out, walk precincts and vote. We also passed a statewide measures to raise taxes in order to restore cuts in education.
Mayor Bob Filner:
Then there was another tax on the rich.
All the measures Jerry Brown wanted were passed.
Remembering him from long ago...
