A GOP stronghold goes wobbly (Politico)
It’s a sign of the GOP times: Republicans in California’s Orange County, once a conservative citadel, are worried about the future of the party.
… In the 1980s, the local GOP had good reason to boast that it was “the most Republican county in the nation” — Reagan carried the county by 429,000 votes in his reelection bid.
Now, however, the OC continues to slip through the party’s grasp, another once-mighty GOP machine laid low by demography. Mitt Romney won 53 percent here, a far cry from Reagan’s 75 percent in 1984, or even George H.W. Bush’s 68 percent in 1988….
The SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT — "[The] blog he developed was something that made the district better." - Tim Jemal, SOCCCD BoT President, 7/24/23
Saturday, November 24, 2012
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