Thread: GOP resurgence may not swing California races

GOP resurgence may not swing California races

By John Marelius, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 1:10 a.m.

With President Barack Obama’s approval rating sinking and Washington gripped by fights about health care, climate change and deficit spending, Republicans are confident of recouping at least some of their losses in the past two elections.

Early handicapping of the November midterm election has Republicans picking up at least three Senate seats and between 20 and 30 in the House. Such losses could stymie Obama’s legislative agenda, which has been squeaking by on narrow party-line votes.

Does a big Republican year nationally portend Republican success in California? Not necessarily, analysts say, noting that the state GOP has major structural problems and that California often bucks national trends.

In 2006, the national Democratic wave stopped at California, where Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat Phil Angelides.

“The 2006 elections show that there’s no automatic carry-over,â€

It looks promising for the 2010 elections.

[quote]Allan Hoffenblum, publisher of the California Target Book, which analyzes state political campaigns, contends that California is different because of its large and growing minority population, which is “not voting Republican because of the shrillness of the immigration debate.â€

Originally Posted by NoBueno

California's so called growing minority population is the direct result of illegal immigration, which no one cares to talk about.

Many of the new "minority" population are former illegal aliens, and their relatives, who the Reagan Amnesty (Reagan was a Rep.) in 1986 gave citizenship to. More than 3 million illegals got citizenship and the right to sponsor their grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, sibling and kids. When all of them got their citizenship they too got to sponsor all of their relatives to come here and this encouraged many millions of other illegal aliens to come here to wait for the next Amnesty. The Obama Amnesty, which is supported by Bush, McCain, Palin, Clinton, Biden, etc.

Both parties have sold out America to foreign interest.