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The Democrats control your state, you must admit that much. The coastline of California especially the S.F. Bay area and L.A. are two of the most liberal strongholds in the nation.

Your state gave Klintoon/Gore astronomical margins. And don't say that Bush 2 is not conservative, Gore ran as an Ultra-Liberal and Bush as a Conservative and Gore beat Bush in Kalifornia by well over 1 million votes.

Yet in spite of all of that, we continue to pass conservative ballot initiatives.
California is my State, I've been here 40 years, and I'd prefer not to surrender, thank you. I'm rather tired of out-of-State Republicans such as yourself who have been willing to surrender us all along.
The primary reason California has gone Democrat the past several elections is the flight of Republicans from Orange and San Diego counties, due to the influx of Illegal Aliens. There used to be enough GOP votes there to counter Dem strongholds in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Californians have screamed for years to get the rest of tha nation to pay attention, and have only encountered defeatist and dismissive attitudes such as yours.
Campaigns built on platforms of such defeatism haven't helped much, either.
Why are you in such a hurry to concede to the Democrats more than 20% of the Electoral College votes necessary to win the Presidency? Why do you want the Republicans in such a hole?

Bush pumped in millions of dollars, visited there frequently and even had thousands show up at his rallies... If Bush couldn't do it why would have faith that an embattled first office seeker with a civil judgment could do it?

Yet in spite of all of that, we continue to pass conservative ballot initiatives.

And the politicians and courts simply ignore them. Your governor has assumed "emergency powers", which makes him for all intents and purposes a dictator. The legislature could rescind them, but they won't.

Remember Prop. 2 from 1998 where the voters demanded that the State spend gasoline taxes on roads and highways instead of using the highway fund for other purposes? It passed overwhelmingly with 75% voting yes.

Gray Davis just thumbed his nose at you and loaned part of that fund to the General Fund to keep the state solvent for a little while longer. See Is Gray Davis Looting California Retirement Funds?, especially post #4.

It's later than you think...