It is spelled California, jerk.
And you are wrong. California has gone through wild political swings, most of it relating to turn out. Until 1992 California was the most reliably Republican presidential state for the preceding fifty years. In 1994 Republicans won all statewide offices but one, and captured control of the Assembly. From 1982 through 1998 California enjoyed 16 years of Republican governors. Arnold WON the Recall running as a conservative Republican. If you add up the votes cast for both Arnold and McClintock in the recall, over 60% of Californians voted for candidates running to reduce the size of government and cut taxes.
McClintock has come within a whisker of winning statewide office three times despite the fact hat the RINO establishment has done everything they can to underfund and thwart his candidacy. The problem is not conservative candidates it is liberal Republicans who undermine them. Its not like you have a viable block of conservatives living there.
What would you know? California gave the Republican nominee 5.5 million votes in the last presidential election. How many did your state kick in?
Well, in Ohio, that state would have given Bush a majority in the General Election, unlike California. Because the effort to suppress the democratic vote was successful in Ohio. ;-)
No surprise here, and I always said Arnold was the only kind of Republican (RINO) that could win in Kalifornia.
It is spelled California, jerk.
Now, now, I note the obvious, and you call me a jerk?
Whining about Kalifornia being...well, Kalifornia. You gave us Boxer and Feinstein, you gave us governor Moonbeam, you gave us Hollywood, and you wonder why the rest of the nation shakes its collective head? And get testy about it?
Lighten up. You have a viable option. You could move. Cause it will not get any better, only worse.
Don’t shoot the messenger, ElkGroveDan. Some of us feel sorry for those of you trapped in leftcoast ‘utopia’.
And for the record, if I were there I would have rather had McClintock as well, but thats a pipe dream given the voting demographics you face in your state.
But you probably know that.
I feel your pain Dan, but Cali or Kali is becoming the butt of many jokes, no matter how you spell it.
Take it in good cheer and change things before it turns to outright scorn.
Florida went through a 6 year nationwide castigation for NOT electing Gore but we bore the outright lies and slander because we prevailed.
Turn things around and praises will shower on you.
If not, then no.
How many Electoral College votes did that add up to?
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California gave the Republican nominee 5.5 million votes in the last presidential election.
***But zero electoral votes. That’s what counts, other than perhaps some coattails — but looking at how many democrat congressmen there are here, I’d say those are short coattails as well.