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2014: Coastal Liberals, Latinos Key to California Vote

2014: Coastal Liberals, Latinos Key to California Vote

While California Republicans watch the national wave and wonder what might have been, California Democrats prepare to return to office in a one-party state. According to Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo, that is because coastal voters, and Latino voters, favor Democrats strongly. In a recent lecture in Sacramento, DiCamillo added that white voters in the state are evenly split, and favor Republicans heavily in Central Valley counties.

“[O]ne of the biggest contributors to the Democratic Party’s electoral successes here versus its dismal showing across the country relates to the very different voting preferences of the state’s white non-Hispanic voters, and in particular, those living along the coast,” DiCamillo said. The electorate in the Central Valley more closely resembles the electorate in the rest of the country, but the coastal and Latino vote hold sway in the state. 

Conservative Assemblyman Tim Donnelly has argued that Republicans could have done better in California if they had nominated more conservative candidates. Breitbart California political editor Jon Fleischman has noted that the National Republican Congressional Committee spent money on races that the GOP eventually lost, but failed to assist Republicans who came close to winning in several other races statewide.

Senior Editor-at-Large Joel B. Pollak edits Breitbart California and is the author of the new ebook, Wacko Birds: The Fall (and Rise) of the Tea Party, available for Amazon Kindle.

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