Anyways, some people on this forum may be underating Angelides. He was the California Democratic chair from 1991-1993. California basically changed from a Republican state to a Democratic state in that period. DiFi won a Republican Senate seat, while the other seat went to liberal Boxer. In the previous 10 Presidential elections, California had only gone for LBJ in his blowout landslide. California is now a safe Democrat state.
maybe i'm missing something, but why do you think in a brief two year period california became a democratic state? that is an awfully short period of time. It seems like it usually takes at least 10 years for a state to shift completely from one side to the other.