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Low GOP Turnout Keeps California in Democratic Hands
ChicoER ^ | 11/15/10 | Joe newby

Posted on 11/15/2010 6:56:02 PM PST by Korah

On Tuesday, November 2, voters across the country turned out in droves to give Republicans control of the House of RepresentativesHosted by imgur.com GOP wins in the U.S. Senate trimmed the Democratic majority, and over 675 State legislative seats were taken from Democrats nationwide. So historic was the win that the Minnesota Senate will be run by Republicans for the first time in that state's history, and Alabama will be in GOP hands for the first time since reconstruction.

But what happened to California?

Are Californians really so liberal that they would elect a man who was once known as "Governor Moonbeam" back into the highest position in the state? Is Barbara "Don't call me Ma'am" Boxer so revered that she would win as easily as she did?

The results in California left many across the country scratching their heads wondering what happened in the Golden State. Was it something in the water? Was it negative advertising?

A careful analysis of numbers from the California Secretary States office may reveal the true reason California remains in Democratic control.

(Excerpt) Read more at ChicoER


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; ca2010; election2012; gop; voterapathy
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I know many will claim that the candidates the Republican party had were not all that great. I would agree with that, well except for Carly Fiorina. But to not vote is to vote for a Democrat.

Well yesterday when I went to the Doctor, I found out that the my Doctor's Secretary did not vote. darn it, she goes to my Church even. Well I gave her a piece of my mind.

Then this a afternoon I was talking to my neighbor and she told me that she and her husband forgot to vote. Forgot?

Well I gave her a piece of my mind also, because just a Month ago I was standing out front talking with both her and her husband about the election. They told me they are Republican and that they agreed with me about everything and that they couldn't wait to vote Boxer out.

Her husband even told me that he remembered when Jerry Brown was governor and that he could not stand the idea of him being elected again.

Then I read this article, and now I am real angry. What is it about Republicans in Ca? Why would any republican not vote?

1 posted on 11/15/2010 6:56:03 PM PST by Korah
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To: Korah

There aren’t enough Republicans in California to win elections without unaffiliated voters. Most of the unaffiliated in the state lean to the left in one way or another.


2 posted on 11/15/2010 6:58:21 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Low GOP turnout equals voter fraud


3 posted on 11/15/2010 7:03:51 PM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Looking at the Secretary of State numbers there are more than enough Republicans that they should have won if they just voted


4 posted on 11/15/2010 7:06:16 PM PST by Amos McCoy (I am, The Real McCoy!)
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To: Korah
Think about the states and races that surprisingly resisted the TEA party/GOP wave. There may be a pattern of “missing” votes.

Instead of the usual dem trick of producing votes out of thin air (and cemeteries) maybe they figured out a way to disappear a bunch of republican votes.

I saw a story earlier today about Connecticut that made me think of this.

There shouldn't have been any area where Republicans were not enthusiastic to get out and vote. Even if you didn't like the GOP candidate in Cali the chance to bounce Boxer should have brought republicans out in droves.

The major shift in votes in seniors should have helped as well.

I am hoping some sharp Freepers can dig in to it.

5 posted on 11/15/2010 7:06:42 PM PST by djwright (2012 The White House Gets Another Coat Of Shellac)
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To: Korah

The GOP missed a good opportunity in California. 86,000 of the commie ‘RATS from over there were in Arizona casting “provisional” ballots for the “medicinal” marijuana crowd.


6 posted on 11/15/2010 7:08:06 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("In God We Trust", everyone else must show proof of citizenship.)
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To: Korah

When the choice is to vote for a liberal with an R behind their name or a liberal with a D behind their name whats the point.


7 posted on 11/15/2010 7:09:52 PM PST by Breto (never accept the premise)
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To: djwright

California is the only state that had no Democrat incumbent lose. Every other state had Democrats losing all the way down to the city levels. Ca is the only one that did not.

As I said, I know three registered Republicans WHO did not vote!

Where is the voter fraud there?

They were lazy, and so they did not vote. Multiply that by all of Ca, and this article is correct. Republicans did not vote!


8 posted on 11/15/2010 7:11:17 PM PST by Korah
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To: Korah

What is it about Republicans in Ca? Why would any republican not vote?

You said it in the first sentence. If I were a Californian I wouldn't have bothered to vote for Carly Fiorina or Meg Whitman either. Party loyalty is hardly the bottom line for evaluation of the principles, character, and competence of a candidate.

Thus the Tea Party.

9 posted on 11/15/2010 7:13:12 PM PST by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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To: Breto
When the choice is to vote for a liberal with an R behind their name or a liberal with a D behind their name whats the point.

Fiorina was a pro life, pro 2nd Amendment, anti tax God fearing conservative! So what is the excuse in not voting for her against Boxer?
10 posted on 11/15/2010 7:13:33 PM PST by Amos McCoy (I am, The Real McCoy!)
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To: Korah

There are two million more registered Dems than Pubs in CA. That’s a hard margin to overcome.


11 posted on 11/15/2010 7:13:51 PM PST by Hugin ("People will usually tell you their bad intentions if you take the time to listen"--- Open Range)
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To: Korah

This is what happens when the GOP Leadership is Democrat-Lite and the candidate at the top of the ticket is only slighly GOP

Why vote for the faux Democrat when you can have the real thing?

THe failed logic driving the Pete Wilson wing of the CA GOP will continue to drive the GOP into the ground here until some conservative(s) wrest control of the party back where it belongs.

A Pox on them all!


12 posted on 11/15/2010 7:15:08 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: jnsun
You said it in the first sentence.If I were a Californian I wouldn't have bothered to vote for Carly Fiorina or Meg Whitman either.

read it again buster.

I did not say that!
I said,
I know many will claim that the candidates the Republican party had were not all that great. I would agree with that, well except for Carly Fiorina. But to not vote is to vote for a Democrat.
So where did I say what you say I did?

You need to learn how to read.
13 posted on 11/15/2010 7:17:26 PM PST by Korah
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To: SoConPubbie

It’s unbelievable how Reagan won in 1966. Did he charm the electorate or did all of the “good people” in CA leave the state?


14 posted on 11/15/2010 7:20:31 PM PST by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: Korah

Republicans who did not vote, just ended up helping the Democrats win. All those who did not vote should not complain.


15 posted on 11/15/2010 7:22:56 PM PST by seekthetruth (Winners don't compromise, Losers Do!)
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To: Hugin
There are two million more registered Dems than Pubs in CA. That’s a hard margin to overcome.

There are 5.3 million registered Republicans, but both Brown and Boxer only received about 4.5 million votes. That means there are enough Republicans that could have won it for Meg and Fiorina by at least 1 million votes if they just voted.
16 posted on 11/15/2010 7:24:25 PM PST by Korah
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To: boop


Mass migrations started in the 80s when California started basically inviting in the Illegals and did absolutely nothing to stem the tide.

After prop 287 got overturned by the courts, more people left, it's been a steady stream since then, mostly conservative middle class.

What's left are the Illegals who leached an unbelievable amount of money from the tax-payers on a per-person basis, and a barely making it middle class, and the rich.

It won't take too much more bad financial news to up-end this state.
17 posted on 11/15/2010 7:25:17 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: seekthetruth; Korah


Stuff it!

I didn't vote for Meg Whitman because of the following reasons:

1. She supports tax-payer funded abortion
2. She supports the illegals and is against AZ1070
3. She was/is in support of Cap-n-Trade and the GLobal Warming Scam

#1 was enough for me, the rest just added to the strength of the correctness of my decision.

Until the CA GOP leadership gets it that if they put up a Democrat-Lite candidate, they're going to lose, they will lose.

I also didn't vote for the GOP candidate for Lt. Governor because he voted for the largest tax increase in CA History basically giving the Democrats the tax cut.

Give me at least half of a Republican and I'll vote for them, if you won't, if you try and pass off a crappy candidate as a Republican, you can go pound sand!
18 posted on 11/15/2010 7:29:43 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: Korah
What is it about Republicans in Ca? Why would any republican not vote?

1. The party establishment is run by the libs. It doesn't promote or support conservative candidates. This drives down conservative turnout in the primaries.

2. Because of (1), both of the party's candidates at the top of the ticket were the more liberal of the two top contenders. This reduces the difference between the party candidates and leads to voter indifference.

3. Because of gerrymandering congressional and state legislative races are uniformly non-competitive. If you are in a democratic district, the democrat wins. If you are in a republican district, the republican wins - usually with 70% of the vote. This doesn't exactly encourage high turnout or grass roots participation and both parties are equally guilty of working to protect "their" safe seats.

4. As a result of all of the above, a lot of conservatives have just given up on the republican party. Between Whitman and Brown for instance you had two liberals running against one another. I used to be a solid Republican voter. This time I ended up splitting my vote about equally between the republicans, the libertarians and the AIP. If the Republicans want my vote they'll have to run candidates who don't turn my conservative stomach.

19 posted on 11/15/2010 7:38:03 PM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Anyone who has read Roman history knows a barbarian invasion when they see one.)
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To: SoConPubbie

But Jerry brown was OK for you because you voted for him by not voting for Meg.

Now what was your reason for not voting for Fiorina?

Then what about Damnon Dunn? He is a Christian Conservative I know because I met him and he never talked like a lib.


20 posted on 11/15/2010 7:39:23 PM PST by Korah
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