Here is what really happened in CA:
Whitman - Flipfloped on immigration so bad, John Kerry would’ve been embarrased. She opposed prop 23, which was the anti-global warming bill. She is against offshore drilling. She her handling of the Nicky Diaz situation showed she is just clueless, she should’ve stuck a few $$ in Nicky’s pocket and sent her to Mex.
Fiorina: Ran a marginally better campaign, but didn’t have an answer to Boxer’s “HP sent our jobs to China” ad campaign.
State offices for Lt. gov and Insurance commissioner - The repbulicans ran two hacks who broke their no new taxes pledge two years ago.
On the other hand, the voters rejected an $18 per car tax increase for parks and rejected raising taxes on business.
In short, years of servitude and incompetence by the state GOP brought this on. Our only hope is that the new citizen-drawn legislslative and congressional districts will allow some new blood in.
The California GOP will not be getting “new blood”. It is going to become a bigger version of Connecticut, Vermont or Massachussettes. Where even if they manage to find a candidate they will be leftists too.
Here's the problem with California.
Even some of the NE-side in that little blue zone is conservative.
There's like ~5 Congressional Districts in that little spot.
Much of California is Conservative, Bakersfield and Fresno
are very conservative as is the rest of the Central Valley.
I suspect when the system here crashes it will as bad
any natural disaster. Zombies out hunting for food,
it's going to get messy. -- The Fed will respond when
the SHTF.
On the bright side
(if there can be one) is that
California can produce. If we can manage to learn from
this and get a swing towards conservatism we can come
back strong. -- We have productive farm land that
just needs water. We have oil both inland and
offshore. If we really went crazy, we have enough
coast for another nuclear power plant
or TWO.
Of course we can always just wait for that anticipated 9.0,
it will shake things up for sure.