California going RED . A election turning POINT.

California has been "slowly" going
Red , while its been a
blue Democrat's Dream .

The last time California had a Republican Governor it was a disaster . Four Republican governors ago the state has not been "RED" . Okay, when will (1)>>California turn Republican? Well, geographically, a lot of the state already is. The POINT is that the Republicans don't control the state legislature anymore. The Democrats have a soild control . If any of us remember over the last 30 years.   The last time California supported a Republican President was in 1988, which concluded a 35 year streak of voting Republican, only going (D) once, in 1964 when they supported Johnson over the unelectable Goldwater. But, since then, immigration and the growth of Silicon Valley have sufficiently changed the state’s demographics to the point that it is highly unlikely to swing back to voting for Republican Presidents term after term. Yet if California has risen, the fortunes of its Republican Party have fallen to the point of near collapse. The Democrats hold both U.S. Senate seats, seven of eight statewide offices and huge majorities in each house of the state Legislature. In the 1998 governor’s race, Democrat Gray Davis, a dull and rather uninspiring campaigner, crushed his well-funded Republican opponent in the greatest California political landslide in 40 years.  The only true Republican victory in the state after the late 1990s was when Arnold (1.2)>>Schwarzenegger won the open recall election in 2003 and served as governor until 2011.Ever since 2011, it has been complete annihilation for Republicans in California. Gov. Jerry Brown beat his Republican opponents by vast margins in both of his most recent elections and the Republicans were shut out altogether in the 2016 U.S. Senate election, with a Republican not getting into the top two in the jungle primary. As the party looks ahead to a high-stakes governor's race and midterm elections in 2018, it faces a grim reality: A Republican hasn't been elected to statewide office here in more than a decade, and the Democrats hold a powerful supermajority in the state Legislature. The GOP's share of registered voters in California is just 27.3%, its lowest since 1980, and it has yet to field a prominent candidate in the 2018 governor's race. Second, Republicans have to start hammering more on Democrat failures such as the bullet train. (2)>>The bullet train is a prime example of a terrible public works project due to the sheer cost of it all and the lack of progress towards its completion. When this bullet train was introduced in 2008, many Democrat politicians promised its completion by the mid 2020s, costing $35 billion. It is now 2018, the project doesn’t even have a solid foundation yet and it is projected to be completed by the late 2030s with a cost now of over $100 billion.Donald Trump's election provides an opening, Brulte said. California's Democratic leadership is so focused on (3)>>battling the new Trump administration that they are ignoring growing concerns at home, he said. The state's roads, bridges and dams have fallen into disrepair, poverty is on the rise, middle-class families struggle to afford a decent home and massive pension liabilities still loom — all problems that have festered under the watch of Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic-controlled state Legislature, Brulte and other state Republican leaders said.In normal election cycles, California voters are far from the action — catching glimpses of federal candidates when they breeze through to raise money. For the first time in recent memory, the Golden State is central to the Democrats’ crusade to win 24 seats that would grant them the House majority.
John Cox for Governor .
Cox has no record to examine for clues since he’s never been elected to public office, though he has run a number of losing political campaigns for (4)>>Congress in Illinois and one short-lived presidential bid.   Cox aims to be California's next governor, a conservative Republican in a state where Democrats hold every major elective office and dominate the legislature.  Cox was endorsed by President Donald Trump in the June primary. While he isn't trumpeting his Trump connection in the Nov. 6 general, he isn't running away from it either in a state where Trump isn't popular.   Democratic voters who loathe President Donald Trump and the party that empowers him. Cox, as a result, has taken to the periphery with his moderate, business-friendly brand of Republicanism, crafted to broaden his  (5)>>appeal to lower- and middle-class voters worried about the high cost of living in the state.  Cox over the past few months has been refining his campaign message, focused almost exclusively on California’s cost-of-living problems. Republicans see it as a compelling platform that could convince voters to cross party lines in a state Democrats now control.  They note that California is home to more homeless people than any other state in the nation and that a large share — roughly 20 percent — of the state’s population lives in poverty. They say people are fleeing California, an argument backed by a 2018 analysis by the state Legislative Analyst’s Office that found between 2007 and 2016, a million more people moved from California to other states than moved to California from other states.     And though polls suggest that it won’t matter because (6)>>Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom will beat Cox on Nov. (theory) who can say in a state that is overburden by taxes that the a Republican come back can happen .

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

 (1)>>California turn Republican?  The state that spawned the "Reagan Revolution’’ and Richard M. Nixon just experienced a watershed moment — the California Republican Party was officially relegated to third-party status. (1.2)>>Schwarzenegger won.  A decade after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — the last elected GOP statewide official — was lambasted for warning his fellow Republicans that their party was “dying at the box office," the new numbers underscore the collapse of the GOP in California. The ranks of Republican voters have disintegrated by 10 percentage points since 1998, when they made up 35 percent of the voter rolls.Democratic numbers have also declined, though not nearly as dramatically — the party made up 46.8 percent of the voter rolls a decade ago. By contrast, the percentage of “no party preference” voters in the state has more than doubled in the past two decades, the latest data showed.    (2)>>The bullet train is a prime example of a terrible public works project .The gas tax,  and other overreaching items from the state government has pissed off a lot of people. The independents might back a right-winger. The sad thing is - the gas tax is doing more damage to the poor then before. Wait until spring when the spring gas blend takes effect. The prices are going to hurt the poor. The bastards at Sacramento put the gas tax on the same day the new fall blend of gasoline was released making it not seem like the gas tax wasnt a big deal. Fall blends always drop the gas prices down. Crooked leftist.Voting ID laws and stiff penalties can also help out Cali. But to be honest - Cali turning Red might be a lost cause.. I dont mind take a beating here while other right-wingers move to different states. Let those states turn Red and control the nation. Nevada is slowly turning Red again. Many Californians are moving to Nevada. Voting Registration in Nevada and Arizona favors Rep. The Trump tax plan is an interesting example of Trump playing hardball with California. It's clearly designed to punish California, with a change in state tax deductions AND a reduction in mortgage loan interest.If the California politicians had half a brain, they'd try and go to the bargaining table over this. Of course, they're not, they're too busy trying to "find justice" for illegal aliens that shoot California citizens in cold blood.(3)>>battling the new Trump administration . For a variety of reasons, local elections are increasingly a referendum on what’s happening in Washington. As the number of media outlets shrinks, more news coverage is national. Partisanship is increasingly what drives people to the polls, and people vote in House races according to how they feel about whoever is in the White House. Incumbents have less of an advantage than they did in prior decades, and voters care less about experience than they used to. All that — and a historically unpopular president — is making life harder for Republicans this midterm season   (4)>>Congress in Illinois and one short-lived presidential bid. In the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois, Cox used a debate between 11 candidates, including then state Sen.-Barack Obama, to drive home his belief that it isn’t tax cuts that harm the economy, but deficit spending. Later, when he ran for president in the 2008 race, 10 Republicans made the cut for the GOP debate in South Carolina. Cox was not one of them. (5)>>appeal to lower- and middle-class voters worried about the high cost of living in the state. California’s home prices have risen more than 7 percent since last year, to a median of $540,000. Median rents for a two-bedroom are $2,800 per month, far higher than the rest of the country. Californians pay 12 cents more per gallon of gasoline than they did last year. The average price is about $3.40 per gallon, among the highest in the nation.(6)>>Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.  See Newsom on his record .