[SwankyC]

is due to the fact that the party has run out of ideas popular with the electorate and that it has grown increasingly conservative, out of step with independents who decide elections

Huh!? HARD LEFT california passed stuff like the Prop 187 and Prop 8 and conservatives are going extinct?

[newzjunkey]

Prop 187 was a generation ago.

The fact is Democrats have run both halves of the California legislature continuously for 40 years with the exception of two years for the assembly in '95/'96.

Conservatives couldn't get elected dog catcher in 85% of CA.