11.04.10
GOP despised in California
Quote of day in the print edition of the Los Angeles Times:
The brand name is still a tremendous liability. People of color are just turned off by the Republican Party. — GOP strategist
This coming in stories where a Republican said he woke up in the morning feeling he’d been run over by a truck.
“Tellingly, Latinos in California had a far more negative view of the GOP than other voters — almost 3 in four had an unfavorable impression …” continued the newspaper.
This because a big part of the GOP platform has been to cast the impression that Latinos in the west, as they relate to illegals, are parasites and to be deported or persecuted.
That’s great in most of the interior of Pennsyltucky. Not at all so, here. Except if you live in places of big acreage but not so many people, like the Hemets and Temeculas.
Meg Whitman was the case in action. Caught employing an illegal, she then was further exposed as a liar on knowledge of it. And then she made the wise decision to go on Fox News saying the nanny should be deported.
Great for Fox viewers. Not so great for chances at recouping the personal fortune with a political win here.
Add to that the plutocrat trying to buy into a position and an utterly damning commercial in which she was seen parroting the pre-election slogans and Horatio Alger-esque bromides of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and you had an image of a repugnant and robotic individual. Republicorp incarnate.
In California, those who’d been laid off in the last two years — and there were many — trashed the GOP, 56-38 for Brown, and 56-40 for Boxer. Unequivocally demonstrating that if the Great Recession had impacted you in a serious manner, you weren’t interested in Republicorp in CA.
Boxer’s ads emphasizing Fiorina’s sending 30,000 jobs overseas were effective. It was something for which the ex-HP exec had no answer.
One demographic the GOP won in California was the 65-and-older. Call it the coot vote from the interior, it went 48-47 for Whitman, 50-44 for Fiorina.
The hardcopy edition of today’s Los Angeles Times had an excellent county-by-county map of the Brown/Whitman results.
Sadly, latimes.com is absolute rubbish for finding stuff like this easily. So no link.