If "bluer" means "sadder", that would be a just assessment. Mr. Jerricks, the Managing Editor who wrote the article, is micromanaging an entire legacy out of one election cycle, assuming like the Democratic surrogate James Carville that the his party would reign for the next forty years. Then came 2010, the great shellacking, and the unnerving revelation for President "I AM" Barack Obama, who was both surprised and dismayed that the majority of Americans opposed his new entitlement, ironically entitled "ObamaCare."
I cannot think of a "bluer" outcome than for the Harbor Area Voters, who continue to vote Democrat but think Republican, who cast their vote for the Democratic candidates, and get elitist outcomes which favor the political class instead of every class of voter. The Republican Platform, without all the vitriol of marginal elements, advances a program which enhances individual liberty and communal responsibility, better than the state ever could. The notion that taxing rich people will solve all our problems is just the classic "class-warfare" propaganda which hurts all classes, especially the middle.
After reviewing the lackluster ascendancy of flip-flop "Mitt", I am not surprised that a larger number of voters simply chose not to vote. One stunning statistic informed me that 24 million Evangelical voters did not go to the polls in November. The GOP standard-bearer was substandard to too many, and the low-turnout hurt Huey and helped Muratsuchi, who will in turn help no one and hurt this state along as part of the crass and overblown supermajority in Sacramento.
That's what really happened in the South Bay: a depressed turnout, and thus a majority percentage of Torrance voters supported the Torrance School Board Members who has overseen one of the most impoverished periods of Torrance Unified, where pensions and benefits remain unreformed, where large bureaucrats still rule the roost at the Plaza Del Amo central office. Obama hit hard with one last surge, plus a horde of paid-door knockers relying on donations from outside of the district.
Al Muratsuchi, bought and paid for by union interests, carried a district where his left-leaning policies are more extreme than "perennial" Republican candidate Craig Huey's views on free markets and individual liberty. The Republican Party has been playing from the old "Mad Men" playbook, using old means to reach an older population. That stops from this time forward. I spoke with many Democratic voters who supported Huey because they like not paying high taxes and doling out tax payer dollars to public sector unions who have created a colluded cartel with the political class at the expense of the voters, the workers, the youth, and even the poor in our communities. The poor suffer considerably under union policies, which favor minimum wage increases, which automatically shuts out poor and minorities looking for entry level work.
The GOP consultants failed to reach out to the eastern sections of the South Bay. One Sacramento pol claimed that Bloomfield did not have a chance of taking the 33rd, yet he only lost by six points. Quite impressive. Recriminations from Establishment types about Democratic voters never stopped me from visiting Venice and Santa Monica, where I surprisingly ran into Republicans, along with disaffected Democrats and independents who are tired of everyone, including Big Government, not respecting the "Little Guy." The Old Guard have to throw out the old ideas for outreach. Free markets work. More government does not. Make the case, and the Harbor Area will be red with life once again.
Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-to-1 right now, but what about the growing number of independents who are dissatisfied with both parties? I understand the upset that many voters have with the Republican Brand -- George W. Bush contributed to that, running a Democrat-lite administration of "compassionate conservatism" which was neither.
No one should count their chickens before they are hatched. After two years of pushing tax increases and spending more money that the state coffers do not have, the Democratic supermajority may endure the same shellacking that shook Obama off his roost for two years and bring back to our state a real Golden gleam based on individual liberty and free enterprise, as opposed to the "soft bigotry of low expectations and dependence".
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