Posted on 02/06/2006 12:36:41 PM PST by SierraWasp
That would be lavender.
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And every time I see a liberal I show them my purple finger.
Only the San Fransideshow city/county!!!
I love that! I hope it's the right one!!!
I'll DITTO that! Well said.
That's because most Californians wouldn't know a Republican if he walked up to them and told them to get a job. They have Arnold Schwarzenegger for a benchmark.
I have my (entirely non scientifically determined) opinion about this and that is that a lot of liberals/Demos have moved to mostly Oregon and Washington, some to Canada, and then a lot of Republicans/conservatives departed earlier for Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Montana but those who remained resolutely in the state represent the existing conservative voters in CA (those who have stuck it out and remained there).
The once-higher Democrats have somewhat departed the state while the remainig Republicans have stuck it out and there you go, the current percentages.
The growing illegal alien population in the state is responsible for most among both departing the place.
San Francisco is lavender.
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pick your reason why: illegals, RINOS, the media, arnold, legislature, etc. Everyone is drifting left it seems.
while the liberals keep driving left, so are the republicans, in CA and nationwide for that matter.
I hate to be so negative, but I think it would be much harder for Reagan to get elected now...
The California GOP's problem is that the primary system elects the most right-wing politico out there. I know that RINOs and moderates are thin gruel, but I would prefer one of them to a libral democrat.
Case in point: Rosario Marin would have beat the socks off Barbar Boxer.
Another reason is because California conservatives insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Until they can learn to work together, they will continue to lose. It is amazing how many splinters the Californa conservatives can break into rather than uniting on one candidate and backing him/her wholeheartedly.
CALIFORNIA VOTER AND PARTY PROFILES
August 2005
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/JTF_VoterProfilesJTF.pdf
"The Democratic Party currently has an advantage of 1.4 million voters over the Republican Party (7.1 million to 5.7 million) or 9 percentage points (43% to 34%), according to the Secretary of State.
Among those most likely to vote in this years elections, Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 7-point margin (44% to 37%), while 15 percent of likely voters are registered as independents.
... the fact that independents are more likely to lean toward Democrats than Republicans (42% to 28%) tends to work to the disadvantage of the GOP in statewide elections."
Then we'll REALLY hear the Dems scream about dissolving the Electoral College. There is *no* reasonable scenario in which the Dems can win the presidency without California's 55 electoral votes.
If Hillary is the Dem. candidate in 2008, California go GOP.
"Republicans have maintained a consistent share in the mid-30 percent range. "
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That's what I call a really decisive Republican majority. (/sarcasm)
IOW 65% of the voters are NOT Republicans.
I am a NY voter. We do the same thing here, and I find it completely unacceptable. As a result we end up with people like Mike Bloomberg.
The guys you think of as right-wing only appear that way in comparison to their opposition. They are typically mainstream Republicans. Ronald Reagan was a conservative, not an extremist.
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