What will it take for the GOP to carry CA, WA or OR again?

[sg0508]

I know the party is too far to the right now and immigration has not helped matters in CA (it destroyed former Senator/Gov Pete Wilson), but will we ever see OR/WA or CA go red again in a Senatorial or Presidential race?

The Gov. races are more bipartisan, but still, we really haven't been competitive there either (and Arnold will be replaced by a democrat next year most likely). 

I know it will probably take a more moderate republican to do it, but it seems as time goes on, the margin just keeps getting tougher and tougher to overcome.  We just cannot win anything in WA state anymore, we're not really successful in OR, although we had Gordon Smith and some tight presidential races and CA has been a joke since the mid 90s outside our RINO/Arnold.

What will it take or is all hope lost? 

[sg0508]

Even in Reagan's 49 state landslide, the west coast was still very weak.  He even carried his own CA by <  his nat. average of 59-40%. 

4 years later, Dukakis turned a 12 pt win in 84 to a 5 pt loss in 88 (OR), won a tight race in WA, and had it not have been "The last gift of Reagan", he would have gotten CA too (51-48%).