California has been dominated by Democrats at the federal, state, and local levels..like an addict, the state first has to hit absolute rock bottom before it can begin to recover. That they elected Moonbean shows that they’re still in denial.
We can thank Pete Wilson for beginning the process and George W. Bush for the final destruction of the California Republican Party. It will take a grass-roots revolt to fix it, yet the small business/landowner base is so busy just surviving all the regulations with which they have been saddled they don’t have the time or money to depose the entrenched “country club” interests who have been feeding off the system for decades.
I wish the authors of the article and the polling outfit gave an honest admission that must be understood about each and every one of the numbers for “disapprove” of Obama’s performance on any number of policy issues.
Among most Marxists, Progressives and Liberals who join those that check “disapprove” in the poll, THEIR disapproval is centered on their belief that Obama has not promoted THEIR KIND of policy prescriptions aggressively enough. Their disapproval is NOT that they wish Obama listened more to Conservatives and the GOP.
That “disapproval” from THEM may not translate into greater (than the past) approval, by them, for any GOP candidate.
At most it may increase their “voter apathy” come November 2012.
At best the numbers may mean some Left leaning “independents” could abandon the Dem agenda in November 2012.
Unless large numbers of “never voted before” and “independent” types become ACTIVE in wanting “change” in November 2012, I do not see Obama’s “disapproval” ratings translating to greater Conservative possibilities beyond the race for POTUS.
We have seen so often in the past how Liberal Democrat legislative office candidates - State and Federal - can track to the right in an election campaign, going “with the grain” in distancing themselves from a waning Dim POTUS contender, or tracking right on some “local” issue - holding onto their seats and blunting/stifling a Conservative change of the Executive branch.
I think the Conservative possibilities are something less than the authors are promoting.
When we split east west, Orange Co, San Diego Co and all the inland (east) co. That would be a very conservative state and other other would be more liberal than mass.