CA-GOP: "Call us the 'Party of Yes'. Also, vote 'no' on Gov. Brown's tax bill"

[Torie]

And the major reason Jerry wants more revenue is because he caved to the Dem legislature on doing much about public employee pensions, unlike Cuomo in NY.  No!

[Torie]

California used to have a lot of Tory Dems, and the GOP outpaced its registration figures like clockwork. Also class was more important in the partisan divide. The GOP did much better relatively speaking with absentee voters. The Tory Dems are now Pubs, or dead or elsewhere generally, the class differential has eroded away to almost nothing, along with the GOP margin with absentees, and independents/declined to states (the percentage of the pie they represent like most places has more than doubled) tend to at most be split and probably lean Dem, with a fair number not registered Dem because the Dems are not Left enough for them.

I remember as a junior high school student doing phone calls for a Pub right winger, Max Rafferty God help me, running against perhaps Alan Cranston, but I forget at the moment. About a quarter of the Dems that I called in the San Fernando Valley said they were going to vote for him. These days that number would be close to zero.