Poll shows Republicans losing ethnicity, age battle in California

[Newsjock]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Deep inside a new USC/Los Angeles Times poll are details that could make the California Republican Party, and by extension its cohorts elsewhere in the country, fear anew the march of time and demographics.

California right now is an extreme example of the nation, to be sure: more ethnically mixed and younger than most states, and riven for 20 years by a hobbling GOP civil war that now is surfacing dramatically elsewhere in the country. But if California is on the leading edge, as opposed to an outlier, the poll serves as confirmation that long-term problems loom for Republicans.

Take party registration: Among white California voters, almost four in 10 are Democrats and four in 10 are Republicans. But among Latinos 55% are Democrats and only 15% are Republicans. Among black voters, 76% are Democrats and 4% are Republicans. There were not enough Asian voters to accurately assess, but overall, minority voters are 54% Democratic to 14% Republican. (Just more than one-quarter of minority voters are registered independents, a group that generally votes Democratic in California.)

The collision between ethnicity and age is even more lethal. Six in 10 white voters are over 50, making them prized in the present but not dependable in future decades. The reverse is true for Latinos, 64% of whom are age 49 or younger. Overall, among all voters, 35% of those 50 and over are Republicans; of those younger, only 23% were.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-poll-california-republicans-ethnicity-age-20131111,0,1938703.story

[ffr]

1. How does the saying go?

Where California goes, the nation follows?

Can't come soon enough!!!

[demosincebirth]

2. Not enough Asian voters? They must have missed the Bay Area.

[KeepItReal]

4. And missed Los Angeles

Jeez

[itsrobert]

5. And San Diego

And Orange County

[rollin74]

7. kind of puzzling given that there are twice as many Asians...

as there are African Americans in CA but Asians got left out

[weissmam]

18. probably because they are not registered

[Le Taz Hot]

16. And missed Central California

with a very large Southeast Asian population. Criminee they're buying up family farms here as fast as they come up for sale. The term "Asian" is a VERY broad category.

[mikekohr]

3. Natural Selection at Work

Darwin was right. Republicans are evolutionary dead enders.

[Arugula Latte]

8. Republicans must be Whig-ging out at this.

[calimary]

9. DUzy!!!!!

[brush]

19. Very good. I like.

Like that thing on top of Rand Paul's head.

[kmlisle]

10. Must be why large numbers of Repubs oppose evolution

They seem to think they can change reality by lying about it. Does not work in the long run!

[SHRED]

11. Don't worry

They will find ways to cheat.

[blkmusclmachine]

13. A Republican can always rebrand as a "New Democrat," and then find (s)he has to bi-partisan every-

thing away after the Election. And the DEM Base may even cheer him/her for it! Go, "our team"!

[DeSwiss]

17. Their loss, is ''our'' gain?

''To fight the empire is to be infected by its derangement. Whoever defeats part of the empire becomes the empire; it proliferates like a virus... thereby it becomes its enemies.'' ~Philip K. Dick

- This ''achievement'' reminds me of Stalin's edict on how to make everyone happy. Which was to ''kill all the unhappy people.'' Of course.....

[Bosso 63]

12. The writing on the wall.

Dear GOP,

The test results came back and there not good.
You probably should start thinking about putting your affairs in order.
Adiós.

[SoapBox]

14. LOLOL

[tofuandbeer]

15. This isn't evident by looking at my neighbors: even the younger people moving in are Tea Bag types.

Maybe it's because I'm in an unincorporated area of L.A. where Tea Baggers move because of less taxes?? I dunno...just guessing. But it sux living next to these freaks.