[Not A Snowbird]

He probably lost New Mexico, Iowa, and possibly Oregon & some others because of it, but not CA.

True, true. California is a lost cause, I'm afraid.

Can anybody really call elections? The squishy, undecided middle is a fickle, unpredictable bunch. Honestly I think they go to the voting booth and start chanting "eeny, meeny, miney, mo..."

[olde north church]

If President got on the ball with illegal immigration, he might stand a chance of sweeping the southwest and California. I think that might even get the non-voters out of their easy chairs and into the voting booth.
You can maintain your values if you stay true to them in each section of the country where a political issue is has priority without be seen as changing message for the sake of vote appeal.
America is becoming Balkanized simply by it's size, although National Security is enough of an encompassing issue to focus point by point in each section.