Democrats Roll To SuperMajority In California

Democrats Roll To SuperMajority In California

By Michael R. Blood | 11/10/12 03:50 PM ET EST
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LOS ANGELES – “If the future happens first in California, the Republican Party has a problem.

The nation's most populous state - home to 1 in 8 Americans - has entered a period of Democratic political control so far-reaching that the dwindling number of Republicans in the Legislature are in danger of becoming mere spectators at the statehouse.

Democrats hold the governorship and every other statewide office. They gained even more ground in Tuesday's elections, picking up at least three congressional seats while votes continue to be counted in two other tight races - in one upset, Democrat Raul Ruiz, a Harvard-educated physician who mobilized a district's growing swath of Hispanic voters, pushed out longtime Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack.

The party also secured a supermajority in one, and possibly both, chambers in the Legislature.

"Republican leaders should look at California and shudder," says Steve Schmidt, who managed John McCain's 2008 campaign "The two-party system has collapsed."

Republican voter registration has dipped so low - less than 30 percent - that the party's future state candidates will be hobbled from the start.
Republicans searching for a new direction after Mitt Romney's defeat will inevitably examine why President Barack Obama rolled up more than 70 percent of the Hispanic and Asian vote, and 9 of 10 votes among blacks, essential ingredients in his victory.

Women also supported Obama over Romney nationally and in California, where they broke for the president by 27 percentage points.

There is no better place to witness how demographic shifts have shaped elections than in California, the home turf of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan that just a generation ago was a reliably Republican state in presidential contests.

Independents now outnumber Republicans in 13 congressional districts in California, a trend A surge in immigrants transformed the state, and its voting patterns. The number of Hispanics, blacks and Asians combined has outnumbered whites since 1998 in California, and by 2020 the Hispanic population alone is expected to top that of whites.

With Latinos, for example, voter surveys show they've overwhelmingly favored Democratic presidential candidates for decades. Similar shifts are taking place across the nation.

Surprisingly, Democrats continued to make gains in the state even at a time of double-digit unemployment, with polls showing that voters are unhappy with Sacramento and Washington

More than half the young voters in the state, ages 18 to 39, are Hispanic, according to the independent Field Poll. Thirty-five percent are Asian. If you look into a classroom in the Los Angeles area – tomorrow's voters – 3 of 4 kids are Hispanic.

Schmidt traces GOP troubles with Hispanics to 1994, when voters with encouragement from Republican Gov. Pete Wilson enacted Proposition 187, which prohibited illegal immigrants from using health care, education or other social services.

The law eventually was overturned, but it left lingering resentment with many Hispanics at a time when the Latino population was growing swiftly and becoming increasingly important in elections.”

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It looks like California is really blue, and the republicans are like dinosaurs of the past , while President Obama won 6 swing states out of seven in the elections shows that the Democrats are on the move which signifies a mandate by the people of America to get Congress to work together in a fair, unbiased way for the people of America that elected them to do their jobs.

They need to put their party affiliations aside, stop trying to bring President Obama down because it was a costly failure on their part, and start working for the common good if they even know how to do that.

The Bush Recession was longer and costlier to the American people because of the republican agenda; now it is hoped that they can start to behave in an adult manner and get the people’s work done. We have the gigantic deficit and national debt due to GW Bush’s insane tenure where he almost brought the country down in ruins.

Now we must put animosity, party lines, Grover Norquist, aside and start working together or the republican party will be dead and gone if they don’t start to clean up their interior mess and start working in a dignified way.

 

My condolences. Sorry to hear that...

 

One party rule is never a good thing.
Having said that, California is a lost cause. It is fast becoming the worlds largest welfare state. Let them have it, sooner or later the achievers will grow tired of handing over their labors to the state so it can be redistributed, and more and more of them will leave.

To my conservative friends, consider boycotting California. Next summer, take your vacation dollars elsewhere.

 

It's certainly too bad for California.

But libs there are hoping the rest of the county will commit hari kari and join them before the Golden State collapses entirely.

If not then Cali is in deep do-do as the most productive people move out and nothing but losers and deadbeats remain.

 

As a Democrat and a Californian- I too think this is a bad idea. One party in charge of everything is not good.

But the Republicans have been moving this direction since 1994.

On the plus side- the Democrats will no longer be able to blame the Republicans for obstructing their budgets- it is all on my party now.

Do I think they are willing to make the painful decisions?

Unfortunately no.

But to be fair- the Republicans aren't either.

 

As a liberal in CA let me just say....

Even I'm terrified about just HOW bad this could get...

It would be nice to have some serious republican options as a balance.

 

There is going to be a lot of redistribution of wealth there now.

 

California is very close to bankruptcy. a democrat majority will take it the rest of the way. don't come begging for a bailout, you did it to yourselves---enjoy what you voted for.

 

yep, businesses are leaving by the truckloads, you will be left with nothing but hollyloonies and mexifornia, maybe you can get mexico to annex the state.

 

Why are you terrified? Do you not want "liberal" politicians to enact "liberal" policies in your state? Now you guys can start REALLY taxing those evil rich people and redistributing wealth to the poor. You guys will be the envy of the nation once "liberal" policies take firm hold in California, right?

 

You think it's a bad idea for your ideological allies to dictate the policies in your home state? How odd. Do explain.

 

Look at all the libs, scared of themselves. They know how jacked up their ideas are.

 

I venture to say that it will be like Europe, where the liberals fight among each other in the labor party, the socialist party, and the conservative liberal party.

 

That is true, I think anyone investing in California municipal bonds will have higher risk to lose their money since the state will increase expenditures, and possibly default.

 

Even liberals aren't thrilled about this, lol.

I don't understand why, though. Isn't obstructionism from Republicans a bad thing? You didn't seem too upset when Obama got everything he wanted passed during his first 2 years... not sure why complete control wouldn't be embraced by people who want a more powerful centralized state.

 

It will be hard to blame Bush now.

 

I, too, am perplexed by this. In the land of liberals, why wouldn't they want liberal control? Is this the small, dying vestige of humanity left in them screaming out in protest?

 

Liberals are a confused bunch.

 

I think that Conservatives balance out Liberals and vice versa. I think Liberals having a monopoly in the Legislature is a bad idea.

As I said:

On the plus side- the Democrats will no longer be able to blame the Republicans for obstructing their budgets- it is all on my party now.

 

the defective liberal gene has become an epidemic in california. its called DRD4---the defective liberal gene---look it up, its real. it blocks rational thought.

 

They'll find somebody to blame. Hot on the heels of a recent tax hike, they are already planning another tax hike for the ballot in March. Rich and middle-class households have been fleeing the state for well over a decade, this will ensure they move even quicker. Meanwhile, the state continues to fill up with poor people. Over 1/3 of welfare recipients live in California — a state that houses only 12% of the population.

The walls are crashing down. We are running out of rich people to tax.

 

It's a contagious cancer as far as I'm concerned. Look at Nevada - now a blue state thanks to California refugees fleeing the high tax land of California, but bringing their liberal politics with them. As history has shown time and time again, liberals only like high taxes when other people pay them.

 

Then please stop watching movies, using technologies, iPhones, Facebook and most social networks if you, do not shop from most online stores, do not watch streaming movies through netflix. All in all, just stay off the web if you want to boycott California. We don't mind if less people hog in the internet. Google and Apple are based in California, so is the vast majority of Hollywood companies and VFX companies.

 

In other words, you do not have faith in your own ideology.