“California voters surveyed in the poll repudiated the party’s stance on illegal immigration by endorsing a host of positions intended to make it easier for the undocumented to gain legal status. Their support for same-sex marriage outnumbered that opposing any legal recognition by more than 3 to 1. Californians also endorsed an assertive role for government in protecting minority citizens, regulating corporations and helping the poor and needy, and rejected arguments that an activist role for government had harmed the fiber of American society.
The negative overlay both explained and helped determine the fates of the party’s candidates in November. As a GOP tide swept the nation, Republicans here lost all statewide offices, with one contest, for attorney general, still unresolved but leaning toward the Democrat. Republicans here also failed to gain any congressional seats and lost a legislative seat.
Strikingly, almost one in five California voters said they would never cast a ballot for a Republican. Among Latinos, that rose to almost one in three. Only 5% of California voters were as emphatically anti-Democrat.
‘I don’t know how any Republican thinks they can win in California after looking at this,’ said GOP pollster Linda DiVall, who with Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg directed the survey for The Times and the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences.”
And now it’s official. “San Francisco Dist. Atty. Kamala Harris will assume the post of California’s top law enforcement official, giving Democrats a sweep of statewide offices.”
Could of been worse – they were predicting a total meltdown on this side of the pond.
Yeah, it would have been worse had the Senate gone as well. Massachusetts did well! Take any victory you can.
All the Democrats I voted for won!
Oh that’s right . . . I live in California.
11/24/10
Per an 11/19/10 LA Times poll:
“California voters surveyed in the poll repudiated the party’s stance on illegal immigration by endorsing a host of positions intended to make it easier for the undocumented to gain legal status. Their support for same-sex marriage outnumbered that opposing any legal recognition by more than 3 to 1. Californians also endorsed an assertive role for government in protecting minority citizens, regulating corporations and helping the poor and needy, and rejected arguments that an activist role for government had harmed the fiber of American society.
The negative overlay both explained and helped determine the fates of the party’s candidates in November. As a GOP tide swept the nation, Republicans here lost all statewide offices, with one contest, for attorney general, still unresolved but leaning toward the Democrat. Republicans here also failed to gain any congressional seats and lost a legislative seat.
Strikingly, almost one in five California voters said they would never cast a ballot for a Republican. Among Latinos, that rose to almost one in three. Only 5% of California voters were as emphatically anti-Democrat.
‘I don’t know how any Republican thinks they can win in California after looking at this,’ said GOP pollster Linda DiVall, who with Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg directed the survey for The Times and the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences.”
And now it’s official. “San Francisco Dist. Atty. Kamala Harris will assume the post of California’s top law enforcement official, giving Democrats a sweep of statewide offices.”