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A_Good_Boy
05/30/18 6:50:26 PM
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/30/california-republicans-third-party-status-613568

The state that spawned the "Reagan Revolution and Richard M. Nixon just experienced a watershed moment the California Republican Party was officially relegated to third-party status.

In the culmination of the withered state GOPs long slide toward near-political irrelevance here, new voter registration data released this week show the once-robust party trails behind both Democrats and no party preference in the nation's most populous state. The California Republican Party is now outnumbered by independent voters by 73,000, according to Political Data Inc., which tabulates voter file data from county registrars.

The new figures come as the state looms large in the national battle for the House, with a handful of Republican-held seats poised to play a pivotal role in November.

Among Californias 19 million registered voters, the latest statistics as of 15 days before the June 5 primary show that Democrats now make up 8.4 million or 44.6 percent of the electorate.

That compares with 4,844,803 no-party-preference voters, or 25.5 percent of the states voters and 4,771,984 Republicans, who both make up about 25.1 percent. The California Secretary of States office is expected to release its own official count later this week.

A decade after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger the last elected GOP statewide official was lambasted for warning his fellow Republicans that their party was dying at the box office," the new numbers underscore the collapse of the GOP in California. The ranks of Republican voters have disintegrated by 10 percentage points since 1998, when they made up 35 percent of the voter rolls.

Democratic numbers have also declined, though not nearly as dramatically the party made up 46.8 percent of the voter rolls a decade ago. By contrast, the percentage of no party preference voters in the state has more than doubled in the past two decades, the latest data showed.

Political analyst Carson Bruno, now a dean at Pepperdine University, cautioned on Twitter that its still unclear how much of the NPP gain is due to the implementation of automatic voter registration, which auto-registers new voters as NPP and requires them to select a party later.

And Matt Fleming, spokesman for the California Republican Party, downplayed the development.

This isnt surprising. Voters have been becoming more and more independent for years, he said in an email statement. But no party preference doesn't mean voters are becoming Democrats, and we will continue to reach out to all voters. The rise in NPP suggests that voters are fed up with the status quo in California, which, by any objective measure, is Democrat control of Sacramento.



It's official, Republicanism is dead. Hopefully it takes Devin Nunes out with them.
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DarthAragorn
05/30/18 6:51:07 PM
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California
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Caution999
05/30/18 6:51:32 PM
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California
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A_Good_Boy
05/30/18 6:54:14 PM
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Caution999 posted...
California

You might have heard of the place. California, you know the, the world's 5th largest economy and feeder of the nation. If they're saying that being Republican is bad for business then they have a whole lot of authority on the matter.
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Broseph_Stalin
05/30/18 6:54:17 PM
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Gets rid of Republicans, becomes the fifth largest economy in the world, hmmm.
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Villain
05/30/18 6:55:44 PM
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Broseph_Stalin posted...
Gets rid of Republicans, becomes the fifth largest economy in the world, hmmm.

Interesting
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Roshon
05/30/18 6:57:10 PM
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Please vote out Dana Rohrabacher and Devin Nunes! They are disgraceful.
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pegusus123456
05/30/18 6:59:38 PM
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A_Good_Boy posted...
Political analyst Carson Bruno, now a dean at Pepperdine University, cautioned on Twitter that its still unclear how much of the NPP gain is due to the implementation of automatic voter registration, which auto-registers new voters as NPP and requires them to select a party later.

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Phantom_Nook
05/30/18 7:09:48 PM
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Hopefully the rest of the country follows us soon.
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Broseph_Stalin
05/30/18 7:18:58 PM
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pegusus123456 posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
Political analyst Carson Bruno, now a dean at Pepperdine University, cautioned on Twitter that its still unclear how much of the NPP gain is due to the implementation of automatic voter registration, which auto-registers new voters as NPP and requires them to select a party later.


This affects both parties though.
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pauIie
05/30/18 7:23:21 PM
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Broseph_Stalin posted...
Gets rid of Republicans, becomes the fifth largest economy in the world, hmmm.

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jpenny2
05/30/18 7:26:21 PM
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Hop103
05/30/18 7:27:59 PM
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Hopefully the Greens can oppose the extremist SJW run Democratic Party in California.
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05/30/18 7:32:13 PM
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Honestly I had expected Republicans from that state to be smarter in order to survive.

But then I saw one on Real Time and he was such a Trump shill and even came to defense of Scott Pruit and his wasteful spending. And then of course theres the other bumbling shills like Devin Nunes.

They have no one to blame but themselves.
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Damn_Underscore
05/30/18 7:35:42 PM
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This is very bad because it will lead to a one party state

A one party system is always worse than a two party system
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Damn_Underscore
05/30/18 7:38:43 PM
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Broseph_Stalin posted...
Gets rid of Republicans, becomes the fifth largest economy in the world, hmmm.


What does it matter if California is the 5th largest economy in the world if many areas of the state, namely the areas that make the economy so large, are too expensive for the average person to live there?
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iamintents
05/30/18 7:38:49 PM
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yes, we are smart enough to see the GOP is bullshit.

catch up, 'murica
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Damn_Underscore
05/30/18 7:42:17 PM
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16-BITTER posted...
No parties would be ideal imo. Not that they're banned or whatever, just that the general populace learns to assess the individual and not the organization.


This.

Every politician, besides the rich ones, have to choose one or the other if they want to get elected. Who actually agrees with a party's platform exactly? And there are probably a lot of politicians in America who don't really agree with either, but agree with one more than the other or agree on certain important issues.
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WoodenRook
05/30/18 10:03:42 PM
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Hop103 posted...
Hopefully the Greens can oppose the extremist SJW run Democratic Party in California.

Aren't you European?
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FL81
05/30/18 10:14:30 PM
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A_Good_Boy
05/30/18 10:15:18 PM
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FL81 posted...
Imagine living in a one-party state

Like the South, except not a shithole?
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CarlGrimes
05/30/18 10:21:52 PM
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A_Good_Boy posted...
FL81 posted...
Imagine living in a one-party state

Like the South, except not a shithole?

More like Brazil and Venezuela. Your state will come crashing down hard once the homeless population grows even larger.
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A_Good_Boy
05/30/18 10:26:00 PM
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CarlGrimes posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
FL81 posted...
Imagine living in a one-party state

Like the South, except not a shithole?

More like Brazil and Venezuela. Your state will come crashing down hard once the homeless population grows even larger.

Brazil and Venezuela have the world's 5th largest economy too? Wow, California is practically on the brink of collapse. Any day now though amirite.
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foreveraIone
05/30/18 10:28:07 PM
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CarlGrimes posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
FL81 posted...
Imagine living in a one-party state

Like the South, except not a shithole?

More like Brazil and Venezuela. Your state will come crashing down hard once the homeless population grows even larger.

if California crashes so does the US.

have fun with another 07-08 level recession
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CarlGrimes
05/30/18 10:30:40 PM
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foreveraIone posted...
CarlGrimes posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
FL81 posted...
Imagine living in a one-party state

Like the South, except not a shithole?

More like Brazil and Venezuela. Your state will come crashing down hard once the homeless population grows even larger.

if California crashes so does the US.

have fun with another 07-08 level recession

Oh well. I survived that one and I can survive other one.
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Damn_Underscore
05/30/18 10:30:47 PM
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The success of Silicon Valley is masking the state's problems

They must start building more homes and building more highrise apartments
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A_Good_Boy
05/30/18 10:42:35 PM
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foreveraIone posted...
CarlGrimes posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
FL81 posted...
Imagine living in a one-party state

Like the South, except not a shithole?

More like Brazil and Venezuela. Your state will come crashing down hard once the homeless population grows even larger.

if California crashes so does the US.

have fun with another 07-08 level recession

Sounds like you're hoping for it. Shithole states will suffer more for it, so better hope it doesn't happen.
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foreveraIone
05/30/18 10:44:57 PM
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A_Good_Boy posted...
foreveraIone posted...
CarlGrimes posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
FL81 posted...
Imagine living in a one-party state

Like the South, except not a shithole?

More like Brazil and Venezuela. Your state will come crashing down hard once the homeless population grows even larger.

if California crashes so does the US.

have fun with another 07-08 level recession

Sounds like you're hoping for it. Shithole states will suffer more for it, so better hope it doesn't happen.

I don't want to happen and I am well aware rural America is going to get fucked harder. sort of like how they got fucked harder than anyone else in the 07-08 recession
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Annihilated
05/30/18 11:12:02 PM
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A_Good_Boy posted...
FL81 posted...
Imagine living in a one-party state

Like the South, except not a shithole?


Any place you are in is a shithole.
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Broseph_Stalin
05/30/18 11:24:07 PM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
The success of Silicon Valley is masking the state's problems


The tech sector is only around 8% of California's economy, it's the most diversified in the country.
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Pillowpantz
05/30/18 11:25:16 PM
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There are roughly 3 million illegal immigrants in Los Angeles alone last time I checked a few years back. That's the margin by which Hillary beat Trump in California.
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Broseph_Stalin
05/30/18 11:26:07 PM
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The Great Muta 22
05/30/18 11:26:10 PM
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Pillowpantz posted...
There are roughly 3 million illegal immigrants in Los Angeles alone last time I checked a few years back. That's the margin by which Hillary beat Trump in California.


Go away SMAL
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A_Good_Boy
05/30/18 11:26:19 PM
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Annihilated posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
FL81 posted...
Imagine living in a one-party state

Like the South, except not a shithole?


Any place you are in is a shithole.

And that's why me and your dad call your mom a septic tank.
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Balrog0
05/31/18 10:35:21 AM
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A_Good_Boy posted...
FL81 posted...
Imagine living in a one-party state

Like the South, except not a shithole?


it does suck there being only one party though tbh
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ZannoL
05/31/18 10:40:10 AM
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California > Trash States (aka the south)
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