Thank You Republicans

bobabode · #1 08-29-2016, 10:27 AM

'Orange County is turning blue' LA Times

"If current voting and registration trends persist in Orange County, the longtime Republican stronghold will support its first Democrat for president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. A victory for Hillary Clinton here will signal that the turning point is near: Democrats soon will be the biggest party in Orange County.

Orange County once had California’s highest percentage of voters registered Republican. As late as 1990, the O.C. GOP held a 22% registration advantage over Democrats. By May 2015, that figure had dropped to 9%. Today it is just 5.3%. Even assuming voter registration slows after the November election, by 2020 Democrats will almost certainly overtake Republicans, as they already have in neighboring Riverside County.

How close is Orange County to turning blue? In the June 7 presidential primary, 55% of the votes cast for president went to the Democratic candidates, while only 44% went to Donald Trump or other Republicans still on the ballot — a 66,045 vote advantage for the Democrats. In the city of Fullerton, Republicans have a mere 144 voter registration lead, and it is shrinking. When Fullerton flips, five of Orange County’s seven largest cities, which contain more than half the county’s population, will have Democratic majorities." LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...nap-story.html

Hallelujah!

whell · #2 08-29-2016, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by bobabode

'Orange County is turning blue' LA Times

"If current voting and registration trends persist in Orange County, the longtime Republican stronghold will support its first Democrat for president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. A victory for Hillary Clinton here will signal that the turning point is near: Democrats soon will be the biggest party in Orange County.

Orange County once had California’s highest percentage of voters registered Republican. As late as 1990, the O.C. GOP held a 22% registration advantage over Democrats. By May 2015, that figure had dropped to 9%. Today it is just 5.3%. Even assuming voter registration slows after the November election, by 2020 Democrats will almost certainly overtake Republicans, as they already have in neighboring Riverside County.

How close is Orange County to turning blue? In the June 7 presidential primary, 55% of the votes cast for president went to the Democratic candidates, while only 44% went to Donald Trump or other Republicans still on the ballot — a 66,045 vote advantage for the Democrats. In the city of Fullerton, Republicans have a mere 144 voter registration lead, and it is shrinking. When Fullerton flips, five of Orange County’s seven largest cities, which contain more than half the county’s population, will have Democratic majorities." LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...nap-story.html

Hallelujah!

You're welcome, and please keep it. There are plenty of other sane areas of Cali.

bobabode · #3 08-29-2016, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by whell

You're welcome, and please keep it. There are plenty of other sane areas of Cali.

Thanks Mike. The whole country would benefit from following the California model.

Boreas · #4 08-29-2016, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by whell

You're welcome, and please keep it. There are plenty of other sane areas of Cali.

The "Meth Belt".

Wasillaguy · #5 08-29-2016, 12:16 PM

When I was there and the defense industry was humming, it wasn't such a bad place. Small businesses thrived all around Rockwell's campus in Anaheim, and Lockheed, Lear, Martin-Marietta, and others were vibrant in the same area. If one company didn't win the contract, the guy down the road did. There was job security just living in the area.
So many lunch places you couldn't choose. Good ethnic food, at good prices.
Huntington/Newport Beach was a bike ride away, down the Santa Ana (ditch) River trail.
It was a great place to be young and single, and I'm glad I did it. Met my wonderful wife there. No way I'd go back there now. It's a big crap hole all the way out to Lake Elsinore.

bobabode · #6 08-29-2016, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

When I was there and the defense industry was humming, it wasn't such a bad place. Small businesses thrived all around Rockwell's campus in Anaheim, and Lockheed, Lear, Martin-Marietta, and others were vibrant in the same area. If one company didn't win the contract, the guy down the road did. There was job security just living in the area.
So many lunch places you couldn't choose. Good ethnic food, at good prices.
Huntington/Newport Beach was a bike ride away, down the Santa Ana (ditch) River trail.
It was a great place to be young and single, and I'm glad I did it. Met my wonderful wife there. No way I'd go back there now. It's a big crap hole all the way out to Lake Elsinore.

Thanks for leaving, Was.