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CALIFORNIA VOTER AND PARTY PROFILES

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 year’s 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."

nor cna people ignore his leftist tendencies, why change Trojan horses in the middle of the stream, keep the democRat already in office there.

Have fun. The New Majority is all about fun as the goings on so far at the convention have shown.

Just Win, Baby! Don't sweat the details!

btw,, Ya get your McCain pom poms yet?

Arnold can get the votes from Republicans and conservatives, if he starts acting like one. The ball is in his court. Insulting Republicans and conservatives, asking them to support policies that they fundamentally oppose in principle, is not going to help the Party--it will tear it apart. Arnold is the one who has strayed almost entirely from the Republican platform and the platform upon which he was elected. Perhaps you need to whisper in the bosses ear.

But the governor's spending plan is a large part of the intra-party squabble. Fiscal conservatives are alarmed at such high levels of borrowing, particularly from a governor who has spent the last two years advocating cutting up the state's credit cards. Legislative Republicans have introduced counterproposals in Sacramento that advocate paying for construction without borrowing, which prompted Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, to note that Republican lawmakers and the governor "were about $68 billion apart.''

You will note that there is much support for conservatives, and much lesser support for those promoting the leftist agenda like Maldonado and his minimum wage hike.

McClintock received a much more enthusiastic welcome than Schwarzenegger.
McClintock's reception stood in contrast to Maldonado, the Republican from the Central Coast who is running for state controller. That contrast reflected the party tumult here. Maldonado is carrying Schwarzenegger's bill to raise the minimum wage by $1 during the next 18 months, and he can talk passionately about the idea, noting that his parents were low-wage, migrant farmworkers. But the senator was briefly besieged Friday by Republican protesters opposing the idea, and overnight, someone placed stickers reading "Dis-able Abel" over many of his posters.