Meet the most decidedly blue area of California. "Midnight blue"

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One of the greatest areas to be a Democrat in the entire country. :)

Alameda County politics' hue looks decidedly blue

HIGH DEMOCRATIC REGISTRATION, JOB ANXIETIES HELP MAKE IT OBAMA TERRITORY

By Marjie Lundstrom
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Published: Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 | Page 1A

One in a series of occasional stories about California voters.

BERKELEY – Noah Miller is a political activist, a dad and a very shrewd businessman.

The 37-year-old father of three from Alameda has set up shop outside a Bay Area farmers market, selling presidential campaign buttons for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama ($3 each, two for $5).

Whale Watchers for Obama. Campers for Obama. Birders for Obama. Music Lovers … Single Home Owners … Drummers … iMac Users … People of Faith … Nurses … Rednecks … Bingo Players for Obama.

This being Berkeley, Miller has it made.

In the Crayola color-box of American politics, if California is a basic "Blue," then the Bay Area county of Alameda – including the cities of Berkeley and Oakland – is surely a "Midnight Blue." The seventh-most populous county in California, Alameda County has more than 57 percent registered Democrats and about 16 percent Republicans, nearly the widest gulf of any county in the state.

Republicans do not command that degree of dominance in any California county, though registered GOP voters in Modoc and Placer counties are at about 50 percent.

In Berkeley, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement and 1960s anti-war protests, the 2008 presidential race between Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain is pretty much a no-brainer.

"It's not much of a choice," said 24-year-old David Carroll of Berkeley, an organic cheese vendor at the Tuesday farmers market. "Either you want a democratic society, or you don't." Like many residents here, Carroll wants Obama.

http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1342680.html

[Democat]

1. The bluest of the blue!

Thank you all in Alameda!

16% republicans? :rofl: