Why is the West Coast so left wing?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Why is the West Coast … Democratic in presidential elections?


The Republican Party fell out of touch with this area of the country. The party got too right-wing, disconnected, and it not only lost them Oregon and Washington (in 1988) but California (in which 1988 Bush underperfomed his national average by, roughly, 50 percent) flipped in 1992 along with a stream of populous states outside this area that haven't carried for a GOP presidential candidate since.

Some folks, though, have no problem with the fact that George W. Bush is the only two-term Republican president never to have carried Calif., Ore., Wash., New York (despite 9/11), Maine, Vermont (GOP from the party's election, in 1856, to 1988 - except for LBJ in 1964!), Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. (Not certain if I'm missing any more.)

There was a thread created about Democrats not being able to afford losing Dixie … but the GOP has lost the northeast, the upper midwest, and the pacific rim. Bush barely won his two elections (his combined electoral vote in 2000 and 2004 was less than his father's winning election, in 1988, and his losing one, in 1992). Not very good. And it's hilarious the Republican Party fails to see this as a problem for them.

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