[ScottinVA]

Unless The Big One causes both SF and LA to tumble into the Pacific Ocean, California will never return to the Republican fold.

[Tenacious 1]

Unless The Big One causes both SF and LA to tumble into the Pacific Ocean, California will never return to the Republican fold.

I wouldn't say never. As long as Obozo is defeated in November, CA should lose a lot of the under-table federal debt support it has received from the Fed. The state will be forced into the situation WI and MI are digging out of. Those states swung republican when they got bad enough.

Illinois may be the state simply eats itself completely.

[only1percent]

It's not core LA or SF -- they have always been Democratic powerhouses. It was the loss of the suburbs that made California uncompetitive for statewide Republicans. There are towns that George H.W. Bush carried with 65% of the vote in 1988 that Obama carried with the same majority 20 years later. Flip those back and you're in business.