King Lear
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« on: December 30, 2017, 11:04:00 PM » |
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As someone who lives in California, I can happily assure you this state is not voting Republican at any level anytime soon. I could envision Californias Democratic streak lasting as long as the Republican streak lasted in Vermont (from 1856-1960) due to the fact the state is overwhelmingly Nonwhite, heavily urbanized, and Nonreligious all factors that favor Democrats. Evan Orange County, that as recently as a couple years ago was viewed as a "unpenatrable Republican stronghold" was won by Hillary Clinton last year (by 9 points even), and if next year goes well for Democrats could see all its Republican congresspeople thrown out. Finally, unlike others on this forum I find it difficult to imagine the republicans going to the middle on social issues and immigration, because even if that would cause them to win a few more minority's and young people, they would lose many White Evangelicals (many would stay home) which would negate whatever slight gains they made with other groups and cause them to lose by even larger margins.
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