Some reasons why Obama's Calif. Popularity is only 45%

[truedelphi]

At the top of the list would be the foreclosures that occurred inside the state of California between 2009 and 2011.

Here is some valuable research on what went on during the early years of the Obama Presidency:

http://www.responsiblelending.org/california/ca-mortgage/research-analysis/California-Foreclosure-Stats-April-2012.pdf

Bear in mind that even if your household did not go into foreclosure, much of the value of your home was lost. Since for over ten years, Californians had been told again and again that the best and safest place to invest their hard earned monies was the housing market, this was a serious blow to not only the activity of home ownership, but also reperesented wiping out many older people's hopes for a decent retirement income.

Another would be the secret deportation policy that was engineered between Governor Schwartzennegger and President Obama. This policy affected at least 100,000 individuals here in California. Even if you yourself were not deported, if a person you knew was, it altered your perception of the President. Here is one link that discusses the deportations, although it speaks of the situation in terms of the nation as a whole, and not jsut California. http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/12/us_deports_more_than_200k_parents.html

Also, the years of struggle to have medical marijuana dispensaries up and running was undone by Obama unleashing his DOJ appointee, Eric Holder, on the public. By early 2012, over 6,000 well paying jobs at dispensaries were lost, as dispensary after dispensary closed down. The Administration was so blatantly unconcerned about the effects of this policy that many raids occurred even into the 2012 election cycle!

A look at what goes on during one such raid:
http://my.firedoglake.com/elisemattu/2012/09/26/santa-rosa-calif-gets-hit-by-gestapo-today-092612/

Although it is true that Obama has more recently backed off from this policy, at least in terms of verbiage, the fact remains that the years 2009 through 2012 were years that the anti-cannabis forces were able to set up and infiltrate community after community. All this is in keeping with the Big Third Way Democrats' alliance with Big Pharma, Big Prison, and the militarization of the police.

Many cities now ban the growing of the substance, or have created planning commission provisons that totallyundermine the average person's ability to grow it. This suppression of a person's innate right to grow whatever they want on land they have legal access to is one reason why my community, Lake County, intends to be the first community to have a legal ordinance that establishes the right of any person that has land and seeds to grow those seeds.

[KamaAina]

1. Might be useful to cross-post in the California group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1040

[abelenkpe]

2. You could add those disappointed that their jobs were lost to offshoring

Lots of entertainment jobs have fled to Canada, New Zealand and the UK. US workers can't win against subsidies offered by other countries so many have left or are underemployed now. Whats needed are countervailing tariffs that make such offshoring unattractive. But no politician would dare offer that.

[truedelphi]

3. Ironically, back in the Reagan era, a group of various

quite conservative Republicans wanted to preserve the tariff system, but they were overthrown by the "Supply Side" economic theorists. So these days, you rarely even hear the word "Tariff."

The lack of an equitable tariff system has substantially hurt American farmers. Large scale enterprises such as Safeway offer virtually NO LOCALLY grown produce.m (Which is why I avoid shopping there most of the time.)

If I were to buy apricots at Safeway, for instance, they come from Turkey, while the apricot growers here in the USA take a hit.


And Hollywood is, as you say, in quite a predicament. American actors are all competing to get a spot on a TV show, as Hollywood is making very few movies. Banks jsut are not lending - except fo course for student loans!! And often the films that get made are pure CIA rhetoric. (So where does the funding for those come from?)

[MindPilot]

4. Agreed on all counts

I sat in a Federal courtroom several months back and watched a federal judge issue prison sentences and deportation orders. Absolutely heartbreaking and completely unnecessary destruction of families and lives.

And of course on Cannabis, Obama not only flat-out lied about his position on legalization and medicinal availability, he simply laughs off any questions about the subject.

I resent that I fell for it.

[TeamPooka]

6. I'm especially with you that last part. nt

[Doctor_J]

5. There is no reason to think that such a progressive state

would be a huge fan of a president whom they voted for overwhelmingly, and who then turned out to be Reagan republican once in office. This is a problem with Dems who act like Republicans - Repukes don't like them because they're Dems, and liberals don't like them because they've conservatives. Their only loyal constituency is the DINOs.