HiramJohnson
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« on: January 05, 2013, 01:12:57 AM » |
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Pete Wilson.
He alienated/awakened the Hispanic vote (and to a less understood extent the Asian vote) in California which turned a state that provides 20%+ of the electoral college votes needed for the presidency into a Democratic stronghold.
Before his tenure began in Sacramento (1991), the state had gone GOP in every election since 1948 with the exception of the 1964 landslide. After his myopic opportunism re: illegal immigration in particular, the state hasn't even come close to casting its 54/55 for a Republican.
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