The problem in California is not that we can’t get conservatives riled up and voting - its that there are just too few of us. Its fine to have 15,000 people show up in Orange County. Its just that Orange County is a given, and they are a drop in the bucket. Orange county is one of the very few populous places in California that can still be counted on to go Republican.
Novato, Antioch and Dublin are SF Bay Area suburbs. They are typical of the places where the balance of electoral power lies. There are suburbs like this everywhere.
These are places that used to be pretty reliably Republican, or at least fairly conservative, back in the 1980’s-1990’s. They switched to the Democrats a decade ago, like a lot of similar places in California. If there is going to be a hope of getting California back, these are the places that will have to switch back. If these places have similar gatherings, then I would think that there is something significant happening.
I lived in no CA 10 years so I’m familiar with those towns. I agree with you that there are too few conservatives in the state. The people who attended the rally in Orange County were also from L. A. County, Ventura County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County, San Diego County and more; many of the folks who attended are Democrats who are mad that our taxes have been increased. Orange County is quickly slipping into the Democratic side; I believe in less than 10 years it will be D, as all the newly registered voters are young people who are Ds. The reason the rally was in southern CA is because J&K are on a radio station in L. A. so obviously their audience is in so CA. Perhaps someone could get something similar started in northern CA. J&K said if they had known the crowd would be so large, they would have had it in The Staple Center in L. A.
It’s okay for you to poo-poo the size of the crowd, but my guess is that you don’t live in so CA so you’re naturally not impressed by anything that occurs down here. Yeah, I know this comment is a bit nasty, but so be it.