LOL People! Not every where in California is friggin’ Berkley.
There are a lot of red, even deep red, areas in the state.
The coastal part of the state tends to be deep blue (with the exception of Orange County and to an extent San Diego), but with few exceptions the inland counties tend to be Conservative like Bakersfield, Central Valley, and the Eastern and Northern suburbs of Sacramento.
Obama did do well in a lot of red and purple districts in 2008 but that will be hard for him to repeat. Just look at a county by county breakdown on cultural issues like the prop 8 vote. Even LA County voted Yes!
There are a lot of sane folks in CA, the problem is the coastal cities. The vote is just too lopsided Democrat in LA and San Francisco to be overcome most of the time.
There are many ways to meet the Lord.
I live in Illinois and there are some here that think that means Chicago.
I live in the normal part of the state and that aint Chicago.