Talk Elections

2012 President: General Election
62% Obama (D), 31% Romney (R)
64% Obama (D), 26% Gingrich (R)
63% Obama (D), 28% Santorum (R)

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=e0ca86dd-f10f-4eab-bfd9-83cc40996df1

Winfield hardest hit.

I wish, but it seems a bit low.

Database entry: https://uselectionatlas.org/POLLS/PRESIDENT/2012/polls.php?action=indpoll&id=620120402019

Maybe it's just one of SUSA's weird subsample anomalies but Obama actually seems to be pretty competitive among Tea Party voters with the Republicans. lol.

Probably just a few college kids screwing with them or something.  ;)

What a waste. Can we gerrymander the west, so Los Angeles shares electoral votes with... Arizona and Utah? :)

Imagine what will happen if California votes like that in the congressional elections with the new maps.

No way Obama does better than his 2008 margin in California.

California will be an island in the future, kind of a moot discussion.

And here I thought I was the only person on earth who saw "Escape from Los Angeles".

Imagine if Obama loses the electoral college but wins the popular vote due to a 3-4 million vote advantage in California. That's going to be a lot of wasted votes.

The President creams ALL Republicans among "conservatives" securing between 20 and 25 per cent of the GOP vote

What?

Hopefully all the Republicans there continue to flee the state for greener pastures. Let the state be a vote sink.

The Republican brand in California seems toxic ;D. Yes, lets make California sicker and dumber by gutting healthcare and education spending

The President seems to be keeping a pretty big tent in California

I think it's better if California were its own country, kind of a pointless place for anything that's not in their liking politically.

Yes, let's just take a seventh of our GDP and give them independence because they don't vote how you like.

Californians probably don't even recognise their GOP as being one in which Ronald Reagan would fit

And why should California continuously vote for for same political party after two decades and expect a different outcome but achieve the same results?  Tells me they're stuck with loving the big fiscal government and anti-business laws that are enacted. If there's not enough business, people will flock to other states.  I will say some Californians are out of touch with reality.

Why does the Deep South continue to vote Republican despite their constant poverty and an economy that requires being constantly propped up and saved by government disaster funds?

They put their social Conservative issues first before anything else, and the soccons supports their base.

The housing crisis does not factor into magneticfrees wild theories. Back in 2006-2007 California had an unemployment rate close to the national average. So this was well into the dystopic 20 years of democRAT voting mr.free is telling us about. And of course the heart of darkness itself, the San Francisco bay area, has an unemployment rate currently that is at the national average, and the conservative Central Valley and IE has the highest rates (not that it has anything to do with the areas politics but some people on this forum cannot think outside those terms).

Dems have a bunch of House seats to harvest that way - would be interesting if the last decade turned out to be the highwater mark for Republicans in CA for the rest of time, just like it was for NY Dems.

Republicans have been losing legislative seats continuously since 1994 (somehow they had a majority in the Assembly that year), and I don't expect that to change.