[NormsRevenge]

Thank You Mr. Kung, for all your hard work for Bill Simon.

[NormsRevenge]

DUDE!!! Love the hat!!!

[Asclepius]

But for Democrats, who also control both chambers of the Legislature, the overall picture is now one of long-term, one-party dominance that only their own overconfidence or lingering economic malaise threatens to undo.

California will entertain the rest of our country with the absurd spectacle of un-checked Democratic rule.

It's going to be expensive when it comes time to bail them out, however.

[Drango]

The next few years will be very expensive...very.

[goodnesswins]

It just seems like Californians have decided to flush themselves down their own toilet....to 3rd world status.

[Wallace T.]

California may be an even more foul liberal hellhole than such Eastern liberal strongholds as Maryland and Massachusetts, which have some semblance of a two party system. Conservative whites will continue to flee the state, and productive businesses will also find better places to operate than "tax, spend, and regulate" California.

Is there any way we can have Canada give us Alberta and let them have California?

[joesnuffy]

We give our citizenship away too cheaply....
IMO only property owners and those who have served honorably in the US Military should be allowed to vote

[daviddennis]

I thought Bill was very classy to acknowledge Joe. See text and video here on my Olvera Street Freep site

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[Destructor]

Kalifornians are determined to be Communists.

[Doctor Freeze]

I didn't think Kalifornia was still a part of the U.S.

[.38sw]

With this election, California has become even more isolated and irrelevant (yes, I live in California).

[Heff]

My condolences to the people of California. However, all things considered you were stupid enough to vote for all democrats...I hope they tax you into oblivian.

On a similar note, California is not the only state to be that stupid...we have New Jersey...where I live. We just elected 78 year old Frank Lautenboob, who retired from the Senate two years ago. He did nothing for NJ for 18 years and has so little clout in Washington, he will do even less than nothing in this term.

California and New Jersey...the country's bookends. It must be the ocean water...our voters are so stupid.

[CounterCounterCulture]

It's not that Democrats' share of registered voters is growing. Registered Democrats have for years outnumbered Republicans by about 10 percentage points.

What's growing is the pool of decline-to-state voters, largely political moderates who support abortion rights and gun control. Democrats have successfully painted Republicans as too conservative for them.

Interesting these paragraphs are side-by-side. Simon lost by 5% (assuming absentee ballots keep the number the same), so Simon captured more of the "decline-to-state" "moderates" than Davis did.

Somebody posted hard numbers of the murky middle cross-overs, but I can't find it right now.

Not too bad considering Davis' $20-30 bucks per vote.

But still, Simon's loss is our loss.

[Revolting cat!]

Simon won in nearly all of the inland precints. The map is quite instructive. The flyover country starts a few miles inland - LA alone put Davis over the top. It's the city residents, gubmint workers, welfare recipients, students and other beneficiaries of the unending gubmint programs who elected Davis buying themselves 4 years of hostility, open or otherwise, between Sacramento and Washington. Smart, real smart!

[skeeter]

"I've spent 10 years of my life trying to make this state Republican-proof," said Davis political strategist Garry South. "And we might be just about there."

Sadly, all it'll take is the pending catastrophic fiscal collapse to destroy your life's work, nerd.

BTW I love that picture.

[ApesForEvolution]

Kalifornication. 'Nuff said...

[Cold Heat]

Kalifornia is always the first to try a dumb idea and the last to realize it does not work!

I wonder why that is?

[HitmanLV]

"The Republicans can talk all they want," he said, "but I don't see them getting close to a majority in my grandson's life."

I never thought I would see a Republican House in my liofetime, and we have enjoyed that for almost eight years now. Keep pressing - Cali is AWFUL, but it's not 'Mission Impossible."