Surprise! California Tilts Right of Center

NBC Bay Area ^ | Tuesday, Mar 6, 2012 | Joe Mathews

[fr_freak]

I think a LOT of Californians are realistically conservative on fiscal issues...but much to the left on social issues, environment, homosexuality...

Nope, I'd say you have it exactly backwards. Californians, by and large, are more conservative on social issues, such as gay marriage, and less conservative on fiscal issues (this is excluding the hardcore right in CA, which always stands at a disadvantaged 40% or so). How is this possible in gay-friendly moonbeam country, you ask? This is because the minority groups, such as blacks and Mexicans, that the Democrats so far have snookered into being their bitches, are actually quite socially conservative. That is how Prop 8 got passed. The Mormon church did a fine job with advertising, but that didn't change people's minds; it only made otherwise Democrat voters aware of the true nature of the proposition. Black Americans don't want gay marriage. Mexican Americans don't want gay marriage. It is only white liberals that want gay marriage, and white liberals, as well as whites in general, are dwindling from a plurality in CA to a minority.

Meanwhile, the voters of CA never met a bond measure they didn't like. Bond propositions, from midnight basketball to psychotherapy for delta smelt traumatized by motorboats, pass almost unfailingly even while tax increases are universally defeated. That is because that same group that doesn't like "Adam and Steve" also demands that Uncle Sugar kick down with the free money. After all, it's just payback for all of the mean things that Hollywood says that tax-paying white people have done to them (and, of course, the white liberals think money is spewed not from the Fed's printing press, but from the gloriously-scented rear-end of the unicorn, which acts as Gaia's emissary).

[Mariner]

Folks I'm telling you, California is IN PLAY in 2012 for any GOP candidate besides Santorum.

50-50 chance, which is better than at any time since Reagan.

If a Republican wins CA, the dims are toast for a generation.

[abigailsmybaby]

If the numbers I just Googled are correct, the combined population of Los Angeles county and the Bay Area is 20,661,099. I don’t know how many likely voters there are but even 20% is a lot of liberals to overcome.

[DoughtyOne]

California voted down homosexual marriage.

That should tell folks all they need to know about California. It IS NOT has gut and dried liberal as the Dems and the Pubbies make it out to be.

We get absolutely no public advocacy for sound principles here, and then wonder why we don’t sway the day.

We should forbid any Republican leader from remaining in, or coming to the state. We should then reorganize under the Tea Party brand and move on to better governance.

[DoughtyOne]

California voted down homosexual marriage.

That should tell folks all they need to know about California. It IS NOT the cut and dried liberal hell hole the Dems and the Pubbies make it out to be.

We get absolutely no public advocacy for sound principles here, and then wonder why we don’t sway the day.

We should forbid any Republican leader from remaining in, or coming to the state. We should then reorganize under the Tea Party brand and move on to better governance.

[1010RD]

Why are Republicans red and Dems blue? Isn’t this supposed to change from election to election?

[tophat9000]

As any Californian knows... just one big quake to take out the Bay Area or LA

[tophat9000]

A map of America's health...red health blood vs a blue fungal infection

[concentric circles]

2004 Presidential election results, Bush won the red counties. The 2008 election was an aberation, a socialist highwater mark.

[princeofdarkness]

Sorry, but no. Barry’s approval rate with Californians is among the highest besides NY, IL, MA, and HI. If RR ran today for President today he’d lose CA big time. It’s best to concentrate on the rest of the country and not waste previous resources here. We still can get 350+ EV even without CA, NY, IL, and MI.

[wac3rd]

I live in CA and am registered Republican.

I am TEA Party and from Virginia.

I loathe Libs and so do a lot of us.

The Pelosi/Jerry Brown/Hollyweird freaks get all the publicity, there are more of us than you would believe.

I hate the place, however.

[TheOldLady]

Boxes of Republican ballots found floating in San Francisco Bay

Demwits couldn’t win anywhere without cheating until they raised up a bunch of communists in our public schools.
The little leftists are now big leftists, and they vote. Too bad they weren’t taught to think for themselves, but to look
to the mainly slime media. The poor fools swallow the kool-aid every time and participate in their own destruction.

Unfortunately, ours too.

[RedStateRocker]

A very intelligent and well written other side of the issue. Thank you. You have some good points.