[Faithfull]

I'm curious about the impact and percentage of the minority vote in the Davis won counties. I hope Republicans take a good look at the immigrant and minority vote and quit putting so much emphasis on it. Looks to me across the country that minorities didn't move over to the Republicans.Perhaps the money is best spent on those that either don't vote or the undecided.

[bonesmccoy]

The Simon campaign attempted to make an effort to direct the GOP agenda at the minority community.

Here's the 2000 census data for Oakland, SF, and LA

Los Angeles County
Total population 18 and older 6,851,362

Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 2,707,234 39.5
Not Hispanic or Latino 4,144,128 60.5

One race 3,998,762 58.4
White 2,431,261 35.5
Black or African American 636,294 9.3
American Indian and Alaska Native 19,183 0.3
Asian 883,157 12.9
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 15,669 0.2
Some other race 13,198 0.2
Two or more races 145,366 2.1

[bonesmccoy]

Yes, I think there was a national trend towards repudiation of racial politics. However, in California, it appears that the reverse is true. Having Cruz Bustamante on the statewide ticket was helpful to Davis' leverage.

There's alot of second guessing that has to be going on in the CA-GOP. The failure to have better unity (i.e. the divisive psyops of the DNC) has worked in California.

There is one solution... we have to introspectively evaluate the statewide returns and evaluate the election better.