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For the hopefuls in Californias race for governor, the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles County is as mesmerizing as the blanket of lights that glistens every night from the San Gabriel Mountains to the Long Beach coast.
The election will be decided here, where 1 in 4 of the states voters live. Its diverse, sprawling, expensive to advertise in and voters often dont show up, especially compared with the Bay Area. Thats why anyone hoping to topple Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has to win the county.
For two hometown Democratic candidates especially former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and state Treasurer John Chiang of Torrance doing well in L.A. County is essential. Yet this overwhelmingly Democratic stronghold continually bedevils even the most adept campaigns.
More than 180 languages are spoken here, where 5.2 million voters live, outnumbering the electorate in most states. A plurality of the county is Latino 47.5 percent and huge ethnic enclaves abound: Armenian Americans in Glendale, Chinese Americans in Monterey Park; and Filipino Americans in West Covina. The city of Los Angeles has the largest population of Native Americans in the U.S.
Airing an effective television ad campaign the only realistic way to reach voters from Palos Verdes to Palmdale and Pacific Palisades to Pomona can cost $2 million a week.
Newsom, a former two-term San Francisco mayor, is expected to receive a warm embrace from voters in the Bay Area, where turnout is historically higher than L.A. County, especially in non-presidential years. Combined with his aggressive courtship of Californias liberals, who mostly reside along the affluent California coast, the Bay Area vote gives Newsom a considerable advantage and helps explain his front-runner status.
More at:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-los-angeles-county-voters-20180102-htmlstory.html
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Oh, guess what, with no prez term limit, guess who is prez now.
Of course the REPUBLICANS did that because they couldnt win an election otherwise.
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)was voted for office for a fourth term?