by Mark DiCamillo In the final weeks leading up to this year’s November mid-term elections, President Donald Trump encouraged voters across the country to vote as if he were on the ballot. When he said this, it got me to thinking what that might mean for voters here in California. […] Read more »
California Has Become a Crisis for the Republicans
For all the focus since Election Day on the Republican Party’s precipitous decline in California, the true depth of the collapse is still only coming into focus. And so are the implications of that fall for the GOP’s prospects in other western states following the same trajectory of geographic and […] Read more »
Democrats sweep Reagan Country in California
It was where “good Republicans go to die,” Ronald Reagan often quipped. Now, with the final ballots counted, Democrats have achieved a total takeover of congressional seats in the one-time Republican bastion of Orange County. Across the country on Election Day, Democrats shifted the balance of power in the US […] Read more »
California: Berkeley IGS Poll finds Gavin Newsom poised to become next governor
The final pre-election Berkeley IGS Poll finds Democratic Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom poised to become California’s next governor. According to the poll Newsom is comfortably leading his Republican challenger businessman John Cox among the state’s likely voters by a 58% to 40% margin. In the U.S. Senate race incumbent Democrat […] Read more »
What Could Hold Back a Democratic Wave? Economy, Confidence, Independence.
… Lost in all the talk about a Democratic blue wave is a set of sober reality checks — from the quantifiable to the emotional — that may help Republicans reduce their losses, and possibly even retain their 23-seat majority. In many neighborhoods with key House races, daily life is […] Read more »
USC Dornsife/LA Times Poll: Newsom holds large lead in California governor’s race
Three weeks before Californians elect a new governor, Democratic candidate Gavin Newsom holds a commanding 23-point lead over Republican challenger John Cox, 54-31 with 15 percent still making up their mind, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll conducted online September 17 – October 14. CONT. USC Dornsife Read more »