Cox handily wins Orange County

[Oryxslayer]

Please pay respects to RINO Tom and Old School Republican. They will not take this suburban college educated loss well.

Has Orange County ever had an all-Democratic delegation before?

The districts looked so clean back then...

They were clean because you were not required to have the seats be equal pop. Pre-one man one vote, seats varied in size immensely. I got a chance last year to look at a 1960-1970 congressional district handbook at the NYC library a while back, the thing is huge because basically every state had to immediately redraw their districts... sometimes multiple times.

[OneJ]

Looks like those tax cuts aren’t helping the GOP out in this county.

[Technocracy Timmy]

Looks like those tax cuts aren’t helping the GOP out in this county.

Tax cuts can’t stop the angry suburban women, minorities, and young college educated whites from making the once infamous “Orange Curtain” into the Iron curtain now.

[Xing]

Yeah, depending on how many ballots are left out, there's a good chance that Cox loses here, since he's now up by less than 2%. So much for Orange County going Democratic in 2016 being a "one-off."

[lfromnj]

Yeah, depending on how many ballots are left out, there's a good chance that Cox loses here, since he's now up by less than 2%. So much for Orange County going Democratic in 2016 being a "one-off."

I guess I was wrong how strongly the late ballots trend(I expected all the orange county dems to win but still) I still expected the last RINOS in orange county to be willing to vote for an R governor although it is obviously SAFE D in 2020.

[completely dead account]

Yeah, depending on how many ballots are left out, there's a good chance that Cox loses here, since he's now up by less than 2%. So much for Orange County going Democratic in 2016 being a "one-off."

Yep, it seems like CA as a whole has gotten more Democratic over the years.

[ltomlinson31]

https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/1063980974051074048

[President Johnson]

It's pretty close at this point. Gavin Newsom won San Bernardino, though.

[Breton Racer]

Likely Newsom will win Orange County. But this was a Democratic wave in Orange County. All other statewide races that saw a Democrat versus a Republican has the Democrat winning Orange County. Currently Newsom is only losing OC by 5k votes.

[Skunk]

Nice.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Yeah, depending on how many ballots are left out, there's a good chance that Cox loses here, since he's now up by less than 2%. So much for Orange County going Democratic in 2016 being a "one-off."

Yep, it seems like CA as a whole has gotten more Democratic over the years.

You think?  I would say that's the understatement of the year.

[ON Progressive]

Nice.

Yeah, Newsom will win the county. There's still 77k to go, and those 77k will skew Newsom big time.

This post can go straight into the Cellar of Exquisitely Aged Content

[DINGO Joe]

Cox is about to pass the number of votes Jerry Brown got in 2014, so I guess Cox just ran in the wrong year. derp.

[President Johnson]

Cox is about to pass the number of votes Jerry Brown got in 2014, so I guess Cox just ran in the wrong year. derp.

LOL, but Gavin Newsom received more votes than any gubernatorial candidate in history. He surpassed 7 million.

[RINO Tom]

LOL, I like how I've never been to Orange County and will likely never step foot there AND have never lived in a suburb yet have become you guys' completely hypothetical suburban RINO boogeyman.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

I thought white suburbanites in OC were extremely socially conservative, not "RINOs"?

[Bojack Horseman]

It was interesting to see that at least a few Clinton 16/Brown 14 counties flipped to Cox, yet Newsom won a larger percentage of the vote and actually got above 60%.

Stanislaus: Clinton 47-45; Brown 51.5-48.5; Cox 51.5-48.5
Merced: Clinton 52.7-40.6; Brown 50.1-49.9; Cox 51.1-48.9
Fresno: Clinton 50-44; Cox 53.6-46.4
San Bernardino: Clinton 52-41; Cox 50.6-49.4

[Tintrlvr]

It was interesting to see that at least a few Clinton 16/Brown 14 counties flipped to Cox, yet Newsom won a larger percentage of the vote and actually got above 60%.

Stanislaus: Clinton 47-45; Brown 51.5-48.5; Cox 51.5-48.5
Merced: Clinton 52.7-40.6; Brown 50.1-49.9; Cox 51.1-48.9
Fresno: Clinton 50-44; Cox 53.6-46.4
San Bernardino: Clinton 52-41; Cox 50.6-49.4

Those aren't final results. Merced and SB have already flipped to Newsom. It's possible the others will as well. Results aren't done being counted yet.

https://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/maps/governor

[IceSpear]

LOL, I like how I've never been to Orange County and will likely never step foot there AND have never lived in a suburb yet have become you guys' completely hypothetical suburban RINO boogeyman.

Will never visit Orange County or live in a suburb? Why, are you elitist and look down on them because they vote Democratic now?

[Technocracy Timmy]

LOL, I like how I've never been to Orange County and will likely never step foot there AND have never lived in a suburb yet have become you guys' completely hypothetical suburban RINO boogeyman.

A bogeyman is by definition some object used to draw terror out of people.

Why would people be afraid of something that doesn’t exist (RINOs)?

[Bojack Horseman]

It was interesting to see that at least a few Clinton 16/Brown 14 counties flipped to Cox, yet Newsom won a larger percentage of the vote and actually got above 60%.

Stanislaus: Clinton 47-45; Brown 51.5-48.5; Cox 51.5-48.5
Merced: Clinton 52.7-40.6; Brown 50.1-49.9; Cox 51.1-48.9
Fresno: Clinton 50-44; Cox 53.6-46.4
San Bernardino: Clinton 52-41; Cox 50.6-49.4

Those aren't final results. Merced and SB have already flipped to Newsom. It's possible the others will as well. Results aren't done being counted yet.

https://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/maps/governor

Oh wow. I was going by Dave’s results.

[RINO Tom]

LOL, I like how I've never been to Orange County and will likely never step foot there AND have never lived in a suburb yet have become you guys' completely hypothetical suburban RINO boogeyman.

Will never visit Orange County or live in a suburb? Why, are you elitist and look down on them because they vote Democratic now?

LOL, possibly neither.  And I actually am so far from being an "elitist" in my personal life that it's kind of funny the picture people have painted based on a PM score.

[Adam Griffin]

IT'S HAPPPENDJHFHGF

[IceSpear]

LOL, I like how I've never been to Orange County and will likely never step foot there AND have never lived in a suburb yet have become you guys' completely hypothetical suburban RINO boogeyman.

Will never visit Orange County or live in a suburb? Why, are you elitist and look down on them because they vote Democratic now?

LOL, possibly neither.  And I actually am so far from being an "elitist" in my personal life that it's kind of funny the picture people have painted based on a PM score.

Join the club. One of the most amusing things that I've encountered on Atlas is that I, a Flawless Beautiful Wonderful "white working class male", have been depicted as a rich coastal elitist snob that looks down on the peons from my ivory tower.

[IceSpear]

Cox is now only leading by 1,200 votes.