Democrat Porter flips GOP House seat in Southern California

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by Smash255

The Senate map was very difficult for the Democrats this year. The 3td biggest House gain since Watergate is a wave.

It doesn't surprise me that a conservative is unaware of this fact. I think this year there were 26 dems up and 9 republicans.

In 2020 I think there are 22 republicans up and 12 dems.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by silverkris

Well, that's not my problem, that's a problem for the Republicans. They can help themselves by supporting an agenda that a majority of Californians will support and running candidates that will listen to the electorate. It's not rocket science.

No kidding. People aren't obligated to support an R just because an R is on the ballot.

[silverkris]

Originally Posted by lionking

In other words be liberal progressive also. Anyway it will be interesting to see how one party rule by liberal Democrats turns out over the next 10 to 20 years.

You don't know much about California at all.

Sure, you think of the big cities as "blue" but rural areas are heavily Republican. The Central Valley isn't a "liberal progressive" area by any stretch of the imagination.

And despite Jerry Brown's so-called lefty reputation, he's actually fairly friendly to the utilities and the petro companies in the state.

Again, if you don't like the results, do something about it rather than snipe about it. It's a lot more satisfying. As I've said, the Republicans will be able to be viable if they don't run bigots who aren't owned by Russia and actually listen to their consistuents. There's still a lot of them in Orange County; it's just that plenty of them didn't like what Trump represents.