The Sun Goes Down In The Far Right West

What can you say to this?

"The big picture is that, currently, there is not one single state legislative or congressional district that has a majority of the voters registering Republican," says Allan Hoffenblum, who just finished an analysis for the California Target Book, a nonpartisan publication that regularly analyzes state congressional and legislative races.

Not much, if you're a Republican, & want to keep that family values image.  The Democrats think they can push some Republican raptors closer to extinction, & have targeted eight California Congressional Districts where Obama won last November. (We just don't get the cognitive dissonance involved in that, but the humanoid mind never fails to astound, amaze & amuse us, when we're not horrified by its possibilities.)  Fortunately for the Republicans. they won't have to change their rallying cry. They'll still be able to whine that it was Un-Real Americans who cheated them of victory.

 "Republican registration in California is dropping like a rock. "There's a large slice of voters there being turned off by the Republican Party," said Hoffenblum. "What's really hurting them there is an increase in middle-class Asian and Latino voters - and they're not voting Republican. They're registering decline-to-state.

And they'll decline-to-vote for the wretched old guy whining about taxes, & how they should work more overtime to pay the mortgages on their de-valued houses. 

California GOP state Chair Ron Nehring says Democrats won't find their work easy. He notes that none of the eight districts will have an open seat in 2010, giving all eight GOP incumbents a huge advantage. And 2010 "is on track to be a 'correction' election where the opposition party picks up seats ... as voters correct for Democrats' overreaching," he said. Hoffenblum observes that Democrats will have an even tougher job if they fail to offer more centrist candidates to appeal to the all-important decline-to-state middle ground. But California Republicans, he said, haven't shown they are focused on the job, either. "They're too busy recalling all those (moderate Republican) legislators to do something about it," Hoffenblum said. "It's a sign of a party in decline - they're eating their own."

The All-American Killer Diet; heavy on the fats & starches. Imagine eating this monstrosity, Representative Ken Calvert of Norco, Corona & Riverside.