Posted on 11/08/2009 10:57:10 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
California's best years have passed, voters say
In a survey of 1,500 registered voters, 80% say the state is on the wrong track. Respondents express little confidence in state politicians and candidates, even as support for Obama remains high.
By Cathleen Decker
November 8, 2009
Frustrated at California's woes, voters are sharply pessimistic about whether the next governor will be able to move the state in the right direction, and most believe California is in the midst of a long-term decline, a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll shows.
Against that grim backdrop, next year's political contests loom as potentially volatile, but Democrats start out holding the upper hand, the poll found. President Obama retains his popularity in a state that gave him a landslide victory one year ago, with 60% approving of his tenure as president. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican struggling in the last year of his term, won the support of only a third of voters.
In the election to replace Schwarzenegger, Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown, the only major figure currently angling for the Democratic nomination, was seen favorably by more than 4 in 10 voters, and unfavorably by about one-quarter. His likely Republican opponents are much less known; none was seen favorably by more than 2 in 10 voters, the poll indicated.
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Ping!
Most depressing post of the day.
I live in California and know this first hand.
Thanks for reminding me of my misery.
It would be really depressing to see that people still vote for yet another batch of liberals to clean up the mess liberals created.
I left San Francisco when the stench of urine and feces on Market Street came to remind me of Mogadishu.
Morons on parade.
I guess that happens after a life of blowing dope.
Wonder what they will think when Obamie taxes kick in.
John C. Fremont is rolling over in his grave.
what are u whining about? I’m dead center in the middle of the Kool Aid drinking, prius driving white liberal morons: Hollywood.
This is a Mexican public attitude and behavior of life in Mexico. They can not envision anything better and they keep voting for the same people who make sure it won’t get better. I tend to believe the assessment of the new Californian vision. It won’t get better; it will be poor, more corrupt and hopeless. The new immigrants live in America but they are still foreigners.
You have my sympathy. I just don’t understand Hollyweird. Why do they want to destroy the free market system that makes them rich? Why do they care so much for the environment but live in mansions and fly on private jets? Why do they want the government to rob the rich to give to the poor, yet do everything possible to hang onto their millions?
Day ain’t over, yet.
Because they’re liberals. It’s a hypocritical ideology that is more akin to a mental disorder. It makes zero logical sense.
As long as we continue to have California’s worst politicians in history in Sacramento, California’s best days will be behind her.
Swap out the Marxists in Sacramento, and watch how fast things turn around. Then California’s best days could still be ahead.
Alas, with the boneheads we have running the Republican party in the state, we’re -—ked.
Of course they will.
Nothing is going to change unless the entire governmental structure in California is overhauled.
And it's all Bush and Republican's fault whose insidious conspiracy stealthily wrecked California. It won't be complete without juicy conspiracy theory.:-)
There is already a measure floating around that will call for a constitutional convention.
A constitutional convention be called in California for a complete overhaul of the way California governs iteslf.
A constitutional convention can occur in California if a 2/3rds majority of the members of both houses of the California State Legislature vote to put the question to a statewide vote of the people, who must then approve the question by a simple majority. California has held two such conventions, in 1849 and 1878. The state’s voters approved a call for a constitutional convention in 1933, but the California State Legislature declined to act on that call.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Constitutional_convention
Mexicans do not assimilate to our culture in large.
Liberals will go down with the ship rather than to fix the problem. But they do want their cushy lifestyle. Everyone has a breaking point unless they are sociopathic.
However don’t forget CA. did rid themselves of Davis.
I will not go down that “California road to Prosperity” called socialism nor will I allow government business the “Chicago Way”
The problem is called “Career Politicians”
Cut your spending to the bone.
JOIN THE TAX REVOLT
STOP YOUR SPENDING
Don’t give to Washington
Don’t give it to Wall Street.
Don’t put it in the Local Bank
Take your extra cash and bury it in the “back yard”.
And above all tell your “career politicians” why you have stopped spending.
Tell Washington to stop their out of control spending.
They won’t have jobs outside of jail.
Just goes to show how deeply they have drunk the Kool-Aid. It’s the same way in Oregon. People know that the powers in charge have put our state straight into a nosedive into the ground, but yet they still keep electing the full slate of Democrats after 30-some odd years.
No they won't. They flee to the neighboring states, where they start the cycle all over again and wonder why every place they go is falling apart. Trust me, I know from experience.
They also don’t understand why they are so hated when they move here (Texas). And they are hated, enough so that many move out to New Mexico. (Sorry, New Mexico...)
Why? They do it all of the time.
Maybe we can extend that border fence to the west boundaries of Arizona, Nevada, etc.
Is it too late to give the territory back to Mexico?
I’ve started to notice liberals are getting (very) quiet about things.
But they remain in control of the national conversation - because still, conservative / libertarian media to challenge their control of message - is not strong enough
Things are starting to change, but it’s time for some wealthy enterprising conservative to really shake up liberal’s media monopoly with the hostile take over of some network or even better a major movie studio. They’re weak and could be picked off.
Rush has all the money in the world. It would be wonderfully ironic if he were to take the money he had intended to invest in the NFL - and use it to take over CBS or some movie studio.
Then move filming and studio offices - to somewhere like Branson Missouri.
California liberals really need to be taken on. They’re arrogant because they have no competition.
“This is a Mexican public attitude and behavior of life in Mexico. They can not envision anything better and they keep voting for the same people who make sure it won’t get better. I tend to believe the assessment of the new Californian vision. It won’t get better; it will be poor, more corrupt and hopeless. The new immigrants live in America but they are still foreigners.”
Exactly. Folks who are not familiar with what California has become, and how it became that way, need to hear this, as this is a glimpse into the future of the rest of the country unless we stop this horror cold. Unfortunately, time is running out.
California is dying of uncurable stupidity.
“Mexicans do not assimilate to our culture in large.”
Bears repeating. They steadfastly embrace and cling to their third-world mindset.
“They also don’t understand why they are so hated when they move here (Texas).”
Well, then there is Austin, where libs are firmly entrenched.
Bears clarifying.
It’s not just that Mexicans do not assimilate.
Mexicans see AMERICANS as the interlopers in the US southwest. One can see it in the eyes of Mexican immigrants.
Mexicans are re-taking the American southwest, and American political correctness has blinded even a lot of conservatives to the process.
The entire Bush family seems blind to it.
It’s part of the reason we now have Obama.
And now - the destruction of the US Southwest has accelerated.
Who do you suppose is fleeing from the economic collapse which stretches from San Francisco through all of California - into Nevada and into Arizona?
Mexicans?
No. It is native-born Americans who are pulling up and moving out.
The process of “reconquista” is if anything, speeding up and being assisted by the economic collapse.
“California’s best years have passed, voters say (but love Obama;
would vote for Boxer again)”
California gets the government/economy it votes for.
They had a chance to adjust to the tech bust by voting for Matt Fong
instead of Barbara Boxer.
Of course, they love and vote for Total Air-Head Boxer.
And they wouldn’t be in so deep of a hole if they’d listened to
the early days of Gov. “Arnold”.
If Californians wonder how they got in this mess, they only need to
look in the mirror and remind themselves they voted for Democrats.
(and some limp Republicans in fewer cases)
-—West Los Angeles Resident 1995-2005
Jorge clan apparently believes that Mexicans will swoon to their tune, if they trot out Spanish-speaking Dubya and Jeb's Mexican wife and half-Mexican kids. That family drank too much of GWHB Kool-aids.
Can you believe my son just gave up a job offer in Texas to be the future CEO of a company and get the heck out of California because the cost of their health care plan is too expensive? I am almost sick over his decision making skills and could cry. I have no idea what he is thinking.
Unfortunately he got out of the Marines and stayed in California, married and has three kids. They live in a two-bedroom apartment. He graduated with his MBA and I found him a job in Texas where we live. The flew him in to interview him. He has a chance at home ownership and a great life and is throwing it away to stay in that apartment because he would have to pay a few hundred dollars a week more in health insurance. Forget the fact that there is no state income tax here and he would get an immediate raise there, plus the cost of living is so much lower. Just goes to show you what a California college education does for a person. That is why this country is so screwed up.
When thinking about how they reelect this scum, consider the definition of insanity: Doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
What a coincidence. So has America's. But fear not as we are well on the to Marxist multicultural utopia.
This is why Pot and other drugs should not be legal.
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