How is Bernie doing in California now?

[potone]

I think he will win Oregon (where I live), but I have read that Hillary is doing better than him in California. Is this true?

[stopbush]

1. Latest poll has Hillary up by 12 points.

That's a slight gain for her since the last polls.

[upaloopa]

2. For California to mean anything to Bernie he would need to win by a huge mergin.

I live on the Central Coast of CA and I have not heard anyone talking about the primary.

I think generally we feel the nomination is decided before we vote.

[highprincipleswork]

3. I doubt the polls, and CA can go for Bernie, even in a big way.

But we still need to

check registration, because funny stuff has been reported as going on. can do it online.
register, if not registered, before may 23
GOTV like crazy, because June 7 is now a very important day
and forget about the number people, just GOTV like there's no on watching!

[stopbush]

7. I checked my CA registration this week. Perfectly normal.

I moved last June, stayed in the same county, though. All my new info is correct. I made my changes through the fax-in DMV form.

CA is a state that has an excellent elections operation.

[noiretextatique]

4. I predict another incorrect poll eom

[KamaAina]

5. Maybe not.

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1507147

In that just-released LA Times poll of California voters taken before Bernie’s Saturday string of Western blow-outs, Bernie beats Hillary among California Asians, winning 43%-35%. Asian-Americans make up 15% of California’s population, and vote almost entirely Democratic.

Further, and I’m not making this up, Bernie does better overall right now among non-whites (39%) than whites (37%) in California. #BernieSoWhite? Nope, not in Cali.

Black Californians? 39% of them poll for Bernie. That’s THREE NINE, THIRTY-NINE. Latinos? 37% for Bernie. Not good enough yet, but higher numbers than we’ve seen in any primary so far, even better than the best projection of what percent of Latino voters Bernie may have won in Nevada, or black voters he won in Michigan or Illinois.

As the honest among us have been saying all along, there is no monolithic minority voting bloc in America. Minority voting varies greatly between ethnic communities, regions of the country, not to mention voter age (Bernie often runs better the younger POC voters are).

[oldandhappy]

6. Still two months off.

Have heard very little chatter except in groups where you expect people to pay attention. One of my groups is very pro Bernie, the other one not so much. Yes, definitely age related. I live in a senior mobile home park. Widows still vote the way their former husbands did years ago. And say what their husbands were saying back then. Older couples are very Repub except in a few cases where they are divided. There are Dems here but they are quiet. Some are hip and up to date but some are voting for Trump. Weird. I cannot guess at this point. However, food for your hope factor, I am old and definitely Bernie!!

[stopbush]

8. You're right. Not much chatter. Most people I know are voting for Hillary.

The only thing I've heard that's different is that a number of Rs I know have resigned themselves to voting for Hillary if Trump is the nominee. They are hoping Kasich wins, but he won't. They were hoping Bloomberg ran as an I - they would have voted for him and "felt good about it." Those same people will not vote for "that socialist." If Bernie was to somehow pull a miracle out of his ass and win the nomination, these R voters would just stay home.

[highprincipleswork]

9. Most people I know are staunchly Bernie, all the way. Lot of organizing, lots of work.

[stopbush]

10. My daughter and her HS friends will be voting for the first time this year.

She started out supporting Bernie, but the aggressive negativity she's seen from BS supporters on FB and elsewhere has her second guessing her initial support. Last time she said anything to me it was along the lines of "it would be nice to help elect the first woman president."

We'll see. Still a few months to go.

[mackerel]

11. I think Bernie is going to do better in CA than the pollsters are predicting.

[dana_b]

12. I just looked at all of the SDs that there are here in Ca.

and was distressed to find that 90% are committed to Hillary.

Is there, or should there be, a petition to them to ask them to follow the will of the people instead of pre-pledging - like this one for Washington?

I know the party rules and that yes, they can do as they want, it just seems ridiculous that so many are already pledged when we haven't even voted yet.

http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/washington-state-unpledged?source=homepage

I don't know if they make a difference but i would almost love to make one and SOMEWHERE on it list the SD with their current association (Clinton or uncommitted - there are no committed Bernie delegates here).

[potone]

13. This sounds like a good idea.

I have no idea how one would start such a petition, but if you are a member of Move On perhaps you could state one there. Our election system is a mess and the party establishments for both Republicans and Democrats seem determined to choose the nominee regardless of what the people want. I find this very worrying for the stability of our democracy.

[dana_b]

14. Over I-80 in Berkeley today:

Very cool!!

[potone]

15. Thanks for posting.

And I thank all of you for replying! I think the Democratic nomination may well come down to how California votes. So please, for all of our sake, Californians, get the vote out for Bernie!!!

[dana_b]

16. no problem! and I agree

although like I said before, I think that So Cal may be more inclined towards Hillary. I hope that I'm wrong and we have two months to go!