Reply #31: It's not just big money people who vote their pocketbooks

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Look at what happened to Prop. 88.

Anyone who dares whisper of an end-run around Proposition 13 or a statewide increase in sales tax or income tax gets tarred and feathered. One of the Schwarzenegger flyers accused Phil Angelides of wanting to gut the property tax limits. I don't know if that's actually true or not, but the perception would certainly have had an effect on a lot of voters.

Some factoids about California voters:

- Homeowners are more reliable voters than non-homeowners.

- Higher income people (over $60K) vote more often than low income people.

- A higher percentage of white people vote than minorities.

- People over 45 vote more than people under 45.

I don't know what it's looking like up North, but down here it's looking more and more to me like Ca is turning into a Red State.

It's been a reddish shade of purple as long as I can remember, and I started voting in 1976.