California is becoming a one party state

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Explains alot of Californias mismanagement


GOP dead zones: You won't find any Republicans to vote for in big areas of L.A. County

When 818,000 voters in Los Angeles County fill out their ballots this election, they will find themselves in strange political territory: The only Republican names they’ll see will be presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence.

In this GOP “dead zone” — spanning parts of five congressional districts, five state Assembly districts and one state Senate district — not a single Republican candidate made it on to the November ballot.


For the first time in a statewide contest, voters have two Democrats only to choose between in the open U.S. Senate contest between California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris and Rep. Loretta Sanchez.

But for those 818,000 voters in parts of Los Angeles County, such as the San Fernando Valley and Central Los Angeles, the dearth of GOP options stretches much further down the ballot, according to an analysis of voter registration conducted for The Times by Political Data Inc.

For the most part the local Republican parties have given up on this territory, focusing instead on defending seats in the Antelope Valley and the Palos Verdes Peninsula along the Pacific Coast, where Republicans Tom Lackey and David Hadley picked up two Assembly seats from Democrats in 2014.

Tony Cardenas back to Washington or replace him with former L.A. City Councilman Richard Alarcon, who is set to be retried on perjury and voter fraud charges later this year. Both are Democrats.

And when it comes to picking a representative in the state Assembly, that same voter will choose between incumbent Patty Lopez or former Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra. Both are Democrats.

In nearby Van Nuys, in addition to the Cardenas and Alarcon race, voters have two more Democratic choices for the state Assembly: incumbent Adrin Nazarian and attorney Angela Rupert.

Republican Roxanne Hoge, an actress and mother of four who runs a maternity clothing business, said she started her write-in campaign for that Assembly race about a month before the June primary when she realized zero Republicans were on the ballot.

“I found it kind of shocking,” she said. “It is unconscionable that there is a monopoly on either side. Then we all suffer.”

She finished with 88 votes, behind Rupert's 131 votes. Nazarian took 99.6% of the vote.

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Hoge is upbeat about her loss, aware that her late candidacy was not a top priority for the party. But the ballot-box futility is still disheartening for some Republicans in the dead zone.

“I am definitely past the point of worrying,” said Zachary Taylor, a GOP activist who lost a 2014 race to Nazarian by 40 percentage points. “What are the different phases of acceptance? I’m at sadness now. Initially it was denial.”

Outside of the San Fernando Valley, Republicans have also abandoned a large chunk of central Los Angeles that stretches across gentrifying neighborhoods including Eagle Rock, Highland Park and Boyle Heights; small cities such as Vernon and Huntington Park; and dense neighborhoods such as downtown, Exposition Park and Koreatown.

No Republicans are on the ballot in any of the down-ballot races there either.

There will be Republicans in some local races, such as for county supervisor, but voters won't know it from looking at their ballot. Those races are nonpartisan and don’t list party affiliation.

Usually some perennial GOP candidates offer themselves up as sacrificial lambs, such as longtime Radio Shack employee Stephen Smith, who lost a 2010 race against Democratic Rep. Xavier Becerra The results were 86% to 14%.

Smith’s 2014 race against Jimmy Gomez for a state Assembly seat went slightly better: He lost with 16% of the vote to Gomez’s 84%.

“The ones that used to run kind of got tired of running and losing,” said William Morrison, a Republican who lost a primary election in 2014 for a state Senate seat in the area and plans to run for mayor of Los Angeles in 2017.

The 59th Assembly District, which covers the neighborhoods around USC, is the heart of the dead zone.

The district has the lowest Republican voter registration of any Assembly, state Senate or congressional district in the state, according to the latest voter registration data from the California secretary of state.

Just 5.24% of the 183,675 voters there are registered with the Republican party.

Is this the logical conclusion for electoral democracies ..or is the party system to blame

 

[Scoop]

I mean R's had a chance to get in those races, but lost in California's all-party primary.

 

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I mean R's had a chance to get in those races, but lost in California's all-party primary.

The costs to mount a good campaign that youre bound to lose in liberal utopia are kinda prohibitive...the system has become too expensive .

 

[无名的]

Los Angeles is a fukking shythole. I'm out of here in a few months.



I only voted the issues.

 

[Serious]

Los Angeles is a fukking shythole. I'm out of here in a few months.



I only voted the issues.

have fun back in Ohio
Typical transplant couldn't make it in the big city.

 

[无名的]

have fun back in Ohio
Typical transplant couldn't make it in the big city.

I'm moving to Silicon Valley

 

[Serious]

I'm moving to Silicon Valley

Pay more for less. And shytty weather.

 

[无名的]

Pay more for less. And shytty weather.

LA weather is trash unless you're on the Westside, which is just as expensive as Silicon Valley. I'll take the seasons. It's been 90+ degrees for 6 fukking months here.



And I'm renting my house out here for 4k while my rent there will be less than that. And I'll have a yard.



There are so many terrible things about LA... too hot, too superficial, too much traffic, too much crime, too many homeless people, too many tourists, too little space, too few suburbs, too rundown, too few startups, too much flakiness and on and on and on.

I don't give a shyt about SV prices. I'll be a millionaire in 5 years or less.

 

[88m3]

LA weather is trash unless you're on the Westside, which is just as expensive as Silicon Valley. I'll take the seasons. It's been 90+ degrees for 6 fukking months here.



And I'm renting my house out here for 4k while my rent there will be less than that. And I'll have a yard.



There are so many terrible things about LA... too hot, too superficial, too much traffic, too much crime, too many homeless people, too many tourists, too little space, too few suburbs, too rundown, too few startups, too much flakiness and on and on and on.

I don't give a shyt about SV prices. I'll be a millionaire in 5 years or less.

Too bad you couldn't hack it in NY, Champ.



Wishing you the best though

 

[无名的]

Too bad you couldn't hack it in NY, Champ.



Wishing you the best though

Has it done wonders for your Autism?

 

[88m3]

Has it done wonders for your Autism?

Thankfully that's something I've never suffered from.

How's being a little fish in a little pond working out?

 

[Jimi Swagger]

Kinda misleading. Depends on which county/district, San Diego is a swing county but traditionally Republican which is why Trump campaigns here often in addition to being a 2nd home of Mitt Romney who attends that exclusive Mormon Temple near La Jolla (where ya average Mormon cant attend). Beauty of California is so much cultural and political diversity within an area unlike down South or in the North East everyone votes the same as their neighbor or pastor/rabbi. Poor Latinos, Blacks and people near the border and coast tend to vote Democrat while people up north and inland are GOP. Never been registered Democrat since voting age and will choose a candidate with more conservative policies towards business and social policies and liberal towards environment and immigration. Also, my bestie from Riverside raised in Colorado is a Black Republican.

I deviate between Young Outsider and Business Conservative based on that dumb Pew Studies Survey.

The below link gives you a better understanding of how Californians vote.
http://graphics.latimes.com/election-2016-california-results/

 

[Outlaw]

LA weather is trash unless you're on the Westside, which is just as expensive as Silicon Valley. I'll take the seasons. It's been 90+ degrees for 6 fukking months here.



And I'm renting my house out here for 4k while my rent there will be less than that. And I'll have a yard.



There are so many terrible things about LA... too hot, too superficial, too much traffic, too much crime, too many homeless people, too many tourists, too little space, too few suburbs, too rundown, too few startups, too much flakiness and on and on and on.

I don't give a shyt about SV prices. I'll be a millionaire in 5 years or less.

Think you're gonna become a millionaire by just moving to Silicon Valley brehs

 

[无名的]

Thankfully that's something I've never suffered from.

How's being a little fish in a little pond working out?

Who do you think is better off right now?

Think you're gonna become a millionaire by just moving to Silicon Valley brehs

You fishing for daps, huh? Did I say what you said or did I say what I said based upon my knowledge of my life?

 

[88m3]

Who do you think is better off right now?

I live a pretty swell life. You're twenty years older than I am. Probably me.