Posted by James V. Lacy at 12:00 am on Dec 26, 2008 Comments Off on Obama, GOP, and coastal Orange County
One take on the results of the November
election is that the Republican Party needs to get to work, first
and foremost, on rebuilding the Party in coastal Orange County,
especially coastalsouthern Orange County, to re-establish the
possibility oflarge margins of Republican votes in statewide
elections from this area. That’s because voters in these
former bastions of conservatism, and historical homes to
Congressional districts of the likes of Chris Cox, Ron
Packardand John Schmitz,turned out in droves for
Barack Hussein Obama in the Presidential
election.The"GOP brand" is
hurtinghere,and given the irony of high Republican
registration in these areas,GOP leaders
needtofind a solution to getting these voters back in
the Republican column or risk the creation of a longer-term
Democrat trend inan important part of what used to be called
America’s most Republican county.
Courtesy of Allen Hoffenblum’s "Target
Book," we learn that though Congressman Dana Rohrabacher beat
Democrat Debbie Cook handily at 53% to 43%, that John
McCain’smargin of victory wasmuch closer in this
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