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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/11/9/11573/2464As Goes California
by BooMan
Fri Nov 9th, 2012 at 11:57:03 AM EST
Harold Meyerson's piece in The American Prospect should terrify Republicans. He details the recent disintegration of the GOP in California, and it is astonishing to read. Republican registration is now below 30% in the Golden State, and the Democrats have supermajorities in the state senate and assembly. Asian-Americans, who make up a healthy 11% of the state's electorate, voted for Obama 79%-21%. Voters 29 and younger, voted for Obama 71%-29%. Yet, the Republicans haven't shown any signs of adapting. Look at how they did with women:
The racial and political recomposition of the California electorate is now reflected in the racial and political recomposition of the states elected officials. If Indian American Ami Bera holds his lead over Republican Representative Dan Lungern in a Sacramento-area congressional district, the 38 California Democrats in the next Congress will include five Asian Americans and nine Latinos, as well as three African Americans. The 15-member Republican delegation will include no minoritiesand, astonishingly, no women. Of the 38 Democrats, 18 are women. Not surprisingly, Obama carried women voters in California by a margin of 64 percent to 34 percent.
In California, the Republican Party is barely more relevant than it was in the Jim Crow south. It has thoroughly alienated every subsection of the electorate that isn't white and male and suburban or rural. And California Republicans obviously saw this coming, but they did absolutely nothing to prevent it from happening. That does not bode well for the national party.
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As Goes California… (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2012
OP
And that's below 30%, even after the money-blizzard the republicans inflicted on us... n/t
a geek named Bob
Nov 2012
#4
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,227 posts)1. You guys could have voted to repeal the death penalty though. nt
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)2. but it bodes really well for California!
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)3. Republicans have held this state hostage for years
Preventing any meaningful reform because of that stupid two-thirds rule we have in the state legislature. Had we been allowed to implement reforms with a simple majority like everybody else in the country, we would have had a budget surplus in this state years ago. But no longer, not after Tuesday.
Whoo Hoo! Eat it Repukes! You ain't drilling off of my coast, EVER! Not after what you did to the gulf.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)4. And that's below 30%, even after the money-blizzard the republicans inflicted on us... n/t