Californians might be asking, "What Republican wave?"

Somehow D's managed to snag all statewide offices

Brown didn't just beat Meg Whitman, he beat her by over 12% with about 1/7th the funding.

Boxer didn't just beat Fiorina, she beat her by nearly 10%.

Voters made it easier for our legislature (almost 2/3 Democratic) to raise taxes

It appears not one Democrat lost their seat in the House --even the embattled ones. In fact, Jerry McNerney-D CA-11 looks to have held onto a seat that was at one time drawn as a Republican seat.

And turnout? Last night when i arrived at the polls after 7pm, the line was longer and busier than I've ever seen. I vote absentee but about half the time I drop it off at my voting place on election day. My precinct in the SF suburbs is very Democratic and gave nearly 80% to Obama in 2008. For whatever reason, a ton of people in my precinct thought it was very important to be in a long line to vote last night. I'm glad they did. They are the key to saving this state.

(on edit, well it looks like Costa-D did lose his seat...so Democrats didn't deliver a shutout, but they were incredibly strong in California)

Is that it's simultaneously an island of sanity and a swamp of fervid madness. An interesting combination. Of course, I'm talking about the sentient coastal areas . . . go 50 miles inland and you might as well be in Idaho.

:)

Still need 2/3 to raise taxes. But the budget thing is BIG and a now we won't have the minority (repubs) ruling the budget mess.

Funny how this worked out...repubs and repub gov blocked the budget to make dems look bad. Now we're going to have a dem gov, and no more minoiriuty rule. so repubs are going to look even worse when the budget passes on time.

The state legislature passed such a bill twice in the last 8 years, but Republican Guvvna Ahhhhnullld vetoed it.

Now with most important positions solidly blue, I think they'll take a third try at it, and it will be signed.

:D

create another fiscal deficit in CA.

However, the past two single-payer bills were indeed paid for, but yet it was vetoed.

The last one, passed in January 2010, SB810, is very close to a plan that Dennis Kucinich was offering for a nationwide single-payer system.

From January 2010:

http://www.truth-out.org/california-senate-approves-single-payer-health-care-bill56521

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Despite a firm veto threat from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California Senate on Thursday passed a measure along party lines to create a $200 billion state-run, single-payer health care system. The bill—SB 810—now heads to the state Assembly for consideration.

The legislation calls for the creation of the California Health System, which would be financed by using a combination of state and federal funds that California already earmarks for health care along with a payroll tax, the amount of which would be decided later.

The Medicare-for-all system would be extended to all California residents and individuals would have the opportunity to purchase private insurance to cover specific types of services not included in the government-run plan.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), closely mirrors what Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) had envisioned when he introduced an amendment last summer that would have allowed individual states to create a single-payer system.
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Provisionals down in that area have turned races around before that were at a two-point spread. Rural Kern and Fresno are like that. I may do an analysis if I get bored. That said, I'd rather lose him than McNerney, who will we will surely keep.

California is a good state. Too bad prop 19 didn't pass though. that would have been totally cool!

:hi:

One out of every American is a Californian. True blue.

:D

Borrowing from governor Martin O'Malley, "We are moving forward, not back!"

CT is more blue now then in the the past, we used to have some Repub Representatives. All our Dem Reps won, Blumenthal won and Malloy looks like he will pull it out and be the first Dem Gov in 20 something years. I have no idea why we bucked the trend so incredibly but I will take it.

CT most certainly went against the national trend.

Jepsen eeked it out.

No more Meg Whitman commercials!

And here's an interesting photo I found
http://twitpic.com/33g2ji
WTF?

But it's not hard to run against the Tea Party here. What's funny is listening to two of the local AM firebrands who gave so much heat to the recall movement complaining about how messed up the state is, like their guy Schwarzenegger's inept handling of things wasn't cause of it all. But yeah, they helped oil companies loot the state, and then wonder where the money went.

Our Governor won re-election by 13 points, our Senator won re-election by 25 points, our Attorney General ran unopposed, our Comptroller won, we have 6 out of 8 Congressional seats and a majority Democratic state house and senate.

The only cloud was Harris beating Kratovil in MD-1, since Harris was a crazy teabagging state senator before crazy teabagging was a thing.

I LOVE my state! :bounce: