Posted on 11/11/2005 12:39:55 PM PST by VU4G10
Two years ago, more than 70 percent of Inland California voters supported the recall of former Calif. Gov. Gray Davis – while majorities of voters also backed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s election.
That same Republican bastion, which includes Riverside and San Bernardino counties, didn’t come through at the ballot box this week, party officials said Thursday.
In fact, voter turnout in those key counties was among the lowest in the state, according to a report in the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
Critical Riverside and San Bernardino counties are among the fastest-growing in the state – a region where the number of registered voters has increased by more than 260,000 since fall 2002. Republicans outnumbered Democrats there by more than 120,000, according to a tally last month.
In past elections, the Inland area was a cornerstone of GOP strategy, and the resounding failure of the governor’s propositions this past Tuesday has local Republicans worried about 2006, according to the Press-Enterprise. "When your own people don’t show up, you’ve got a heck of a problem,” said Professor Jack Pitney, who teaches government at Claremont McKenna College.
California Republican Party spokeswoman Karen Hanretty said officials will examine turnout in the Inland area. The party wants to know the particulars of the Republican vote - data that will become available when officials finish their canvass later this month.
Kevin Jeffries, chairman of the Riverside County Republican Party, concluded that it’s easier to rally voters around a candidate than around complicated ballot propositions, adding that only half as many volunteers helped get out the vote for Tuesday’s election as were mustered for last year’s presidential contest.
Hey genius -- the issues were conservative.
You harken? LOL.
Oh, Bravo Sierra! I voted for McClintoc in the recall and would have switched my vote to Arnold had the polls shown any chance of a Repub. not winning. I voted straight "R" last Tuesday with no McClintoc animus toward Arnold. None!
Wonder how many of the ones who didn't mention it had the same reason.
I just don't think that "revenge" is the issue. Try another door.
Shut the f*** up, a**wipe. I better hear nothing but praise for the coming tax increase from you.
Well, I meant to say "I think back".
"Oh, Bravo Sierra!"
Shut the f*** up, a**wipe.
"I voted for McClintoc in the recall and would have switched my vote to Arnold had the polls shown any chance of a Repub. not winning. I voted straight "R" last Tuesday with no McClintoc animus toward Arnold. None!"
I wasn't talking about you, then, was I? But man, you jumped up and yelped so f***ing loud, I have to wonder if you really did vote on Tuesday.
I'll mail you my voting slip so you can wipe the crap off of your foul mouth. Get a grip on yourself, man. You're attacking your own flank!
Actually it was most likely the "conservative purists" who stayed home just like they do in every election. After all, it didn't involve Pat Buchanan or someone like him so they didn't vote.
Nonsense.
Reagan won in landslides with conservative and swing voter support.
Which contradicts your first point.
Turnout is a result of leadership. There is no conservative leadership in California.
California's paleoconservatives, representing a little over 10% of the electorate, have seen enough of Schwarzenegger's bigger government, bigger spending and bigger indebtedness to know that they don't want to follow Schwarzenegger. Even the Democrat business class, one of Schwarzenegger's prime targets for "conversion", was concerned about Schwarzenegger's propensity to increase indebtedness through Prop 57/58 and again with Prop 76.
On the flip side it was disappointing that Republicans didn't:
1) All turn out to support Prop 73, parental rights, and Prop 75, individual rights. Both measures were non partisan.
2) All turn out to vote NO on Prop 78 and prop 79, both classic redistribution of wealth schemes. I didn't share their apparent confidence that 78 and 79 were sure failures.
Wife and I both voted (GOP'ers)...
You have to wonder if they didn't vote because they were too busy packing.
Mr. C4E and I voted. Very disappointed in the results. The unions and special interests win again.
I think it's at least twice that number, else Simon would never have so completely trounced Dick Riordan.
The Republican party needs to change its ways.
Paleoconservative logic applied elsewhere:
If every play in football doesn't end in a touchdown, then it's a complete loss and we might as well forfeit the game anyway.
RINO logic applied elsewhere:
You don't like your quarterback, so you start scoring touchdowns for the other team.
Bull feces.
Who's going to protect us from the union goons? Certainly not a blind shill like yourself, evidently.
During the primary cited, the choice was blurred by cross party tinkering and the resultant promotions that flowed from that intrigue. Many plain vanilla Republicans voted for Simon because of the Democrat editorials favoring Riordan's candidacy which caused them to smell a rat.
During the recall, the party itself turned on the conservative candidate, separating the wheat from the chaff; conservatives from Republican loyalists.
Note; Conservatives DID show up. Liberal Republicans did not.
Riverside is not a bastion of conservatism... Try Placer County.
It was the liberal Republicans, many of whom are the wimpy checkered pants type that think Nelson Rockefeller was the best, that did not show up.
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