California Republicans hit rock bottom
Source: Politico
SAN FRANCISCO 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.
In the culmination of the withered state GOPs long slide toward near-political irrelevance here, new voter registration data released this week show the once-robust party trails behind both Democrats and no party preference in the nation's most populous state. The California Republican Party is now outnumbered by independent voters by 73,000, according to Political Data Inc., which tabulates voter file data from county registrars.
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Among Californias 19 million registered voters, the latest statistics as of 15 days before the June 5 primary show that Democrats now make up 8.4 million or 44.6 percent of the electorate.
That compares with 4,844,803 no-party-preference voters, or 25.5 percent of the states voters and 4,771,984 Republicans, who both make up about 25.1 percent. The California Secretary of States office is expected to release its own official count later this week.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/30/california-republicans-third-party-status-613568
Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)underpants
(182,629 posts)Guess not.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)What this means, of course, is that literally millions of California votes -- those who vote Democrat over the bare minimum-- has no effect at all, and much less than just a few votes the other way in a "swing" state.
blkyank1
(45 posts)Others would argue that would be harmful to the interests of many states and their voters. If we went to a national
popular vote, the most efficient means to get votes would be to advertise and campaign in high population states
and focus on urban/suburban issues to run up the tally of voters from the cities. Rural social issues may be blown off
as backward but they do have vital economic issues involving farming that should be addressed.
They should keep the current system which forces candidates to campaign in the swing states while the states
themselves all agree to honor a popular vote winner by awarding their electoral votes accordingly.
cstanleytech
(26,243 posts)One for the office of President which is elected by the popular vote and the other for the office of VP which is elected via the electoral college.
That or make it so if you only win the EC or the popular vote you only get a 2 years term however if you win both you get a full 4 year term.
modrepub
(3,491 posts)The urban areas are generating the bulk of the US Tax Receipts. Why shouldn't those areas have more of a say than the rural areas that generate lower tax receipts and for the most part have declining and aging population bases?
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)elections. I did the math. It's shockingly horrible.
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)isn't working.
peabody
(445 posts)I just saw his advertisement for his outreach here on television last night. Hes bringing his poison to several events. I just hope itll be sparsely attended and people wont fall for this modern day pharisee.
pstokely
(10,523 posts)from blood red states
Hekate
(90,563 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I suspect Massachusetts is similar? A bigger story is why does the state have less than 50% of the population registered to vote? 19 million registered voters, according to the article, out of a population of 39.5 million?
Here are the totals for CT as of the start of 2017
Unaffiliated are 956,000
Minor parties are 32,000
Democrats are 848,000
Republicans are 481,000
2.317 million registered out of a population of 3.588 million, or 64.5%. Only 20.8% are Republicans, while 36.6% are Democrats and 41.3% unaffiliated.
continentalop2
(29 posts)So that's about 80%, not 50%. About 13% of CA residents are not citizens, and a quarter are children.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)but the percentage of children is probably not bigger, may even be smaller than in other states.
How many eligible voters there are in a state should not make any difference in presidential elections. We should have one person, one vote.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)The voting eligible population in Connecticut is 2.561 million, meaning over 90% of eligible voters are registered.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)according to 2016 records. So, 19 million registered out of 25 million eligible is still only 76% registered.
Link is to a google document:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BXeyNrr65eK-EN9QbU2RdvBsKrTI_hFEx-BFqw7l4xQ/edit#gid=0
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,965 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)C Moon
(12,209 posts)Just dumb luck, I guess: and I'm not living in an upper class area.
Or, more likely, they are just more vocal about liking Trump, than those who can't stand him.
dembotoz
(16,785 posts)around where i live gop gotv just crushes
continentalop2
(29 posts)How many of them are long time republicans who just want to be able to say to their liberal neighbors that they're "independents"? And how many republicans re-registered with no party affiliation so that they could ratfuck the democratic primary?
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)vote Democratic or Green. Another contingent really doesn't know that much about politics and probably will vote only if strongly encouraged.
Also, there may be some voters who don't want their employers to know how they vote. The voting rolls are public information.
Only those registered as Democrats can vote in the Democratic primary in California I believe.
R B Garr
(16,950 posts)really just deceptive.
Le Gaucher
(1,547 posts)Given that many of the unaffiliated may be closet Republicans.
There are so many people running as democrats ( even Republicans have a better chance running as a democrat) that the D vote in the primary gets splintered to the extent that it is probable the top 2 happens to only have Republicans
R B Garr
(16,950 posts)to let Democrats clog up all the ballots without some way to sabotage. Your scenario sounds likely.
Le Gaucher
(1,547 posts)R B Garr
(16,950 posts)is datamining a fellow Democratic competitor and making it about exposing details of his divorce, not fighting Republicans. Not much of a Revolution, but that is what they do.
This article reinforces the reality in the field. Knock on doors, not Democrats. Great slogan.
The comments section is brutal. You can recognize the worn out Revolution comments.
JI7
(89,241 posts)Majority of California is made up of minorities.
That's what is being resisted by trump supporters and continued support for him.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)A sucky system
padfun
(1,786 posts)So you all continue your current system and keep repugs in power.
We got rid of ours and now we are a great state.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)malthaussen
(17,175 posts)barbtries
(28,769 posts)that i could even figure out how a person could stand to be a republican.
love my home state.
Uncle Joe
(58,298 posts)Thanks for the thread brooklynite
Puzzler
(2,505 posts)-Puzzler