[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.

[ambrose]

Let's not kid ourselves... the Greenie got 5% of the vote. Those commie pukes would have gone with Davis if they had thought the election was close. There really wasn't much of a chance with Simon given Davis' advantages and Simon's inept campaign.

Lest we forget our history, Pete Wilson won re-election in 1994 with high unfavorables, and the 'Rats stormed back 4 years later. Prior to 1998, CA had 16 years of continuous rule by Republican governors. Maybe the pendulum will swing back in 2006. Maybe.