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Surprise! California Tilts Right of Center
NBC Bay Area ^ | Tuesday, Mar 6, 2012 | Joe Mathews

Posted on 03/06/2012 7:38:14 PM PST by nickcarraway

A fine new report from the Public Policy Institute of California updates what we know about the state's political geography.

For decades, the political divide in California was between the Democratic north and the Republican south. But in recent times, analysts have talked about a blue Democratic coast vs. the red Republican inland.

PPIC's new report concludes that the coast vs. inland explanation isn't exactly right.

When you dig deeply into the numbers, the state's real political divide puts the two former rivals -- Los Angeles County and the Bay Area -- on one side of the partisan divide, and the rest of the state on the other.

Even more intriguing, PPIC finds that while the state has become more Democratic, California is really only as liberal as its reputations in the Bay Area.

"In the rest of the state, even in Los Angeles County," says the report. "California is more conservative and less consistently defined by geography than conventional wisdom would sometimes suggest."

Indeed, on an ideological scale, public opinion data show the average Californians in the middle and "leaning slighty conservative."

We're right of center!

This could be an opportunity for Republicans. But many moderates and conservaitve support the Democratic party. And altering this could be hard because the Republican party may be too small an ideologically rigid to reach out.

The full report is here.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: cagop; california; conservative; geography; joemathews; kenyanbornmuzzie; mittromney; newtgingrich; ppic; ricksantorum
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To: RedStateRocker

He never fooled me, not once. I went balls to the walls in 2003 exposing him as a Socialist buffoon, and he lived up to that as Governor and then some.


21 posted on 03/06/2012 7:58:33 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj
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To: nickcarraway

California dreaming.


22 posted on 03/06/2012 8:03:48 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: nickcarraway

Conservatives and moderates who continue to vote Demonratic are fools. I know, I used to be one. But hey, they’re now 1000x worse than when I left their sorry asses.

Wake up, people. Especially those of you in California.


23 posted on 03/06/2012 8:09:14 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Blame the Slut Media and Slut Voters . . . Sandra Fluke = Useful Idiot)
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To: nickcarraway

When those 2 battle-ax liberal, senators get voted out, I’ll start believing.


24 posted on 03/06/2012 8:09:30 PM PST by RacerX1128 (Cornered in CA)
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To: nickcarraway

All you need to know about California is that Jerry Brown, Kamila Harris and Gavin Newsome won statewide offices in 2010.

This when the GOP slaughtered the Dems in the rest of the nation.

Right of center my eye. I don’t care how you divide the bits, the fact is California is a marxist socialist enclave and sinking fast.

Right of center my eye.


25 posted on 03/06/2012 8:11:06 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (REPEAL OBAMACARE. Nothing else matters.)
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To: gaijin

Not true in the great counties of SD and OC, thank you very much! We smell salt water and are rock ribbed right!


26 posted on 03/06/2012 8:13:20 PM PST by Yaelle (Santorums 2012 - we need a STEADY conservative President)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
If the CA GOP was run by Tom McClintock types, the party and the state would be in far better shape today.

Had Schwarzenegger not jumped into the race at the last possible moment during the 2003 recall campaign, McClintock might have won the governorship and our state's--and perhaps our nation's--history over the past decade might have been far different.

27 posted on 03/06/2012 8:14:28 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: tennmountainman

Dreams allow for inconsistencies.
CA, like most of the country, does not vote the way they believe ideologically. People are ideologically conservative on most issues. On referendum CA voters are conservative. But on candidates they are liberal. Same with much of the country.
The reason is obvious except to those in denial. Conservatives appear mean spirited and unfriendly. When we campaign on issues we win. When we go ad hominem we lose.
Ad hominem is entertaining talk radio. But it is not the way to win voters or elections.


28 posted on 03/06/2012 8:15:34 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: Bullish

Although Sacto is small by comparison, it is the third leg of the SF-LA-Sacto triangle of leftist lunatics. Of course, you do need to throw Mendocino, Monterey, and Santa Cruz into the leftist scrum. And probably Santa Barbara and SLO, too.


29 posted on 03/06/2012 8:16:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Eleven Bravo 6 319thID
Even most Republicans in California are to the left of Karl Marx.

You are full of shee-it, pal.

30 posted on 03/06/2012 8:17:33 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: La Lydia

Simple answer to your query: California tilted Democrat after 1996, when they amnestied enough of the mexican immigrants to make it a deep blue state. we forget that it was only in the 1980s that california was more of a swing state.

That hispanic voting bloc is not ideologically liberal, they are just another ethnic get-the-handout group that democrats cultivate. GOP doesnt even bother to pander so they end up unelectable.


31 posted on 03/06/2012 8:19:09 PM PST by WOSG (“Legion of Acceptibility”)
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To: nickcarraway

Doesn’t that place need to tilt left in order to drop off into the Pacific?


32 posted on 03/06/2012 8:19:09 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: nickcarraway
Wake up! This is just an opportunity to blame all of California's problems on Republicans. California was pretty evenly split until Motor-Voter became law (around 1997) and all the illegals could register to vote by just ticking a box on their DMV application. Trust me, there are Conservatives in California but they have no power due to the overwhelming power of the Dems there. More's the pity.
33 posted on 03/06/2012 8:23:24 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks nickcarraway.
34 posted on 03/06/2012 8:23:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: nickcarraway

bookmark


35 posted on 03/06/2012 8:25:06 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: nickcarraway

Sorry, looks like Motor-voter in Cali was in 1995. When non-citizens are allowed to vote, the country (State) is lost.


36 posted on 03/06/2012 8:26:33 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: nickcarraway

If teh ChiComs were to nuke L.A. and Frisco they would be doing America a huge favor.


37 posted on 03/06/2012 8:27:03 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: nickcarraway

The problem: ILLEGALS

This nonsense article is lies, darn lies, and statistics.


38 posted on 03/06/2012 8:29:10 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: nickcarraway
It isnt hard to see the divide in Calif.

This is the 2004 election.



Note that while SF and LA went solidly Dem, the rest of the state is quite different.

I must also comment that all of you that denounce Calif here do so on a website based in Calif.

Cheers,

knewshound

http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/
39 posted on 03/06/2012 8:30:32 PM PST by knews_hound (Credo Quia Absurdium--take nothing seriously unless it is absurd. E. Clampus Vitus)
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To: Yaelle

Yes, you are right, and I love you guys 4 that..!! ^_^


40 posted on 03/06/2012 8:36:11 PM PST by gaijin
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