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In reply to the discussion: We can do better than Hillary Clinton. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Nixon was FROM California. Born and raised. And he represented the state in the Senate. He was "their" guy, their "Pride and Joy."
So was Reagan--not born (he was born in IL), but he spent the bulk of his life there, worked out of Hollywood, did the union thing out of there, and he was the doggone governor of the state.
The native son usually has an advantage, even if they're a bit jerky. Party flies out the window. People cross over to vote for a native son, especially if they don't actively hate them.
Bush I was the heir to Reagan, so he had "bootstraps" or "wind beneath his wings."
Ford was the guy who kept native son Nixon out of jail during his "appointed" term as President. He was owed.
The RW Noise Machine plays that "Left Coast" shit OUTSIDE of California--the same way they insult MA but don't hesitate to throw money into races like Scott Brown's, and more recently Gabriel Gomez's (and, ironically, he's from Los Angeles).
That nitwit Darrell Issa is from CA. So's that loudmouth Rohrbacher. They only have 15 out of 53 seats in the House, now, but that's because their ideas suck...and CA has had enough of GOP leadership (they had all that time under Ahhhhnuld where things got worse, not better).
All politics is still local...it sure was for Nixon and Reagan.