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What’s the Matter With California?
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 : Last night, Barack Obama accomplished what no insurgent presidential candidate has ever done: survive Super Tuesday. The Illinois Senator did so by amassing a broad coalition of blacks, liberals and red-state Democrats – paying off dividends across the country except in California. Hillary Clinton’s double-digit win here exceeded expectations, and such baffling returns will keep progressives guessing for days what went wrong in the Golden State.
Clinton won in part because she got a large share of support from white women and Latinos – her traditional base – as well as from Asian-Americans. But Obama also got slaughtered in the Central Valley and other conservative parts of the state – defying the national trend, and confining his base to San Francisco and other liberal coastal counties. The state’s electorate was also very conservative when it came to Propositions: voters approved 4 anti-labor Indian gaming compacts, sinked a measure to fund community colleges, and (while it’s good news for progressives that Prop 93 failed) kept the status quo for term limits.Read More
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It's simple. Californians obviously prefer that we attack 100% innocent people in Iran rather than 100% innocent people in Pakistan.
Oh yes, they both offer CHANGE - a change in which group of 100% innocent people we are going to kill and rape.
Voters are disgusting.
Oh yes, they both offer CHANGE - a change in which group of 100% innocent people we are going to kill and rape.
Voters are disgusting.
Let's face it-California is not the progressive state it once was. I doubt if Robert F. Kennedy would have the following today that he did in 1968. California is the state that has given us Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. It has the largest prison population and keeps building prisons while the education system has gone from the top in the 60's and 70s to near the bottom today. It has the death penalty, three strikes, etc, etc. Our cities have gangs and murders every night. The politics is controlled by a small elite of wealthy influential people. The Dianne Feinsteins, the Willy Browns, etc, etc. I would say that Obama did a great job in California given that it is not that progressive a state.
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