Strangely enough, the state is in terrible shape, but the citizens are not totally brain dead. You mention Proposition 187. That wasn’t the state’s citizens fault. It was the 9th Circuit court of appeals fault. And as you correctly point out, even then if Davis had challenged the 9th in an appeal, it still could have stood up.
Then there was the vote on homosexual marriage. Again, the citizens got it right. Once again the courts over-ruled.
I’ll grant you that the citizens keep voting in Leftists, but the Republican party hasn’t waged a real race in the state since Reagan’s day. That’s no joke.
We don’t see even Republican presidential candidates here. unless they’re attending a fundraiser so they can take tens of millions out of the state to spend elsewhere.
Conservatism doesn’t sell here, because nobody at all is marketing it. I guess that’s a little unfair because there have been top level people pushing it, but the party didn’t support them at all even when they were the nominee.
The result of this is the Democrats buying tons of spots on television, and the Conservative buying perhaps 5% as much if they were lucky.
The Democrats fly in former presidents and leaders from Capital Hill for months on end, fork over tens of millions in cash support, and the Republicans fly in Bush for two hours and give no financial support whatsoever.
I maintain that if a solid Conservative campaigned aggressively in the state on bedrock family issues, and solid economic issues, they win easily.
Sadly, we’ll never see it with the GOPe and RNC leadership we have today.
just one of the reasons I moved