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RandySF

(58,664 posts)
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 07:51 PM Aug 2016

Orange County is Trending Blue

A surge in Democratic voter registration has cut Republicans’ advantage in Orange County to less than 6 percentage points and has doubled the number of Democratic cities over the past year.

The Republican margin has been shrinking since 1990, when the GOP edge was 22 points. But in the past six months, the pace of change has been four times as fast as the 26-year average – due in part to the GOP’s controversial presidential nominee. That could hurt the local Republicans in November’s down-ticket races.


http://m.ocregister.com/articles/county-724744-republicans-democratic.html

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Orange County is Trending Blue (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2016 OP
REC. and Thank you for the post. riversedge Aug 2016 #1
Wish any luck Issa will be the 1st to feel it Lebam in LA Aug 2016 #2
+1000 n/t livetohike Aug 2016 #3
Behind the Orange Curtain as we say in Northern California StrictlyRockers Aug 2016 #4
Awesome. zappaman Aug 2016 #5
Down goes Issa the Pissa! NBachers Aug 2016 #6
Don't worry, we will fuck this up. We're really good at it. Sen. Walter Sobchak Aug 2016 #7
moved to the OC jaceaf Aug 2016 #8

StrictlyRockers

(3,855 posts)
4. Behind the Orange Curtain as we say in Northern California
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 09:15 PM
Aug 2016

But it seems as though the curtain is slowly crumbling.

Loretta Sanchez is running for Senate to replace Barbara Boxer. She will lose to the more progressive Kamala Harris this year. That's something. Change is happening.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-loretta-sanchez-endorses-former-state-1470443922-htmlstory.html

 

Sen. Walter Sobchak

(8,692 posts)
7. Don't worry, we will fuck this up. We're really good at it.
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 10:10 PM
Aug 2016

We're running Sue Savary and Ron Varasteh against two of the weakest elected republicans in the country... again. Applegate who is running against Issa is better than the average placeholder, but a Democrat running on military service doesn't necessarily click and he isn't raising much money.

jaceaf

(89 posts)
8. moved to the OC
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 10:34 PM
Aug 2016

proudly displaying my hillary signs, 2 cars, my lawn. I am deep in south OC, it's rough here, but as anything else: it's a matter of time

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