JNB
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« on: July 24, 2004, 12:13:03 PM » |
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Clark County(Las Vegas) growth has come by in large from people moving in from CA. Most of these people tend to be middle and working class whites and a large number of Hispanics as well doing the hard labor jobs. Many of these people grew up in parts of Southren California such as the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys, the older sections of Orange and San Diego counties, and while they are not liberal by any streach, they are not Limbuagh/WSJ style conservatives that think "tax cut tax cut tax cut", and fact most of these new residents have had only meager gains from the tax cuts. The whites who have remained behind in California are either liberals in West LA, the Bay Area, Central San Diego or are WSJ/Limbaugh Conservatives in Southren Orange and Northren San Diego counties, and to an extent, Ventura County. The Inside Empire counties of California, such as Riverside county, are politically and demographiclaly similar to Clark county in NV.
Also the residents have a socially libertarian(not liberal mind you) outlook on life. Bush did fairly well with these voters in 2000, but is doing poorly today, that combined with many middle class voters feeling ill at easy because of rising health care, food and gas costs have made NV quite competitive.
How this pretains to the election, it just shows how weak and feeble Bush is in terms of his communication skills. Reagan in his 84 re election effort effortlessly went from Queens one day to Dallas the next. Bush seems to be stuck in his little echo chamber.
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