Politics: You weren't imagining it — California voters are really different from voters in other states
Nov 17, 2016 15:15:50 #
You had a feeling California was different from the rest of the country. Look no further than last week’s election results for some concrete data showing how much more liberal the state has become compared with the rest of the country and why it was so much more receptive to Hillary Clinton.
I’m Christina Bellantoni. Welcome to Essential Politics.
California’s vote differs so much from the national pattern for two main reasons, David Lauter explains. First, nonwhite voters, a group that is heavily Democratic, make up a significantly bigger share of the state’s electorate than the national one. Second, the state’s white voters are more likely to define themselves as liberals and identify with Democrats than are whites in the rest of the country. In California, white voters made up about 56% of the state’s electorate, according to a USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times post-election poll of California voters, conducted by SurveyMonkey.
Clinton carried those white voters 55% to 40% over Donald Trump, blacks by 84% to 13%, Latinos by 73% to 22% and all other voters by 57% to 35%, the survey found. She also won among both men and women in the Golden State.
On the flip side, Paige St. John takes readers to the outlier of Susanville in California’s Lassen County, where 73% of voters cast ballots for Trump. It was the Republican’s strongest vote in the state.
As of Wednesday night, Clinton was leading Trump by about 1.2 million votes nationwide, a margin that has grown steadily since election day. She is up in California by 3.1 million votes with 3.5 million votes left to count.
Given those numbers, George Skelton writes in his Thursday column that the president-elect was right about one thing: The election was rigged. He argues now is the time to think hard about getting rid of the Electoral College system.
TRACKING THE TRANSITION
Even as Trump’s transition team argued everything was humming along after a rough patch Tuesday, there was little indication the group had progressed toward assembling an administration, and questions remained unanswered about the level of influence that Trump’s family would exert in the new White House.
Lisa Mascaro and Noah Bierman report that rooms set aside for Trump staffers at the Pentagon remained vacant Wednesday, an indication that Trump’s team had yet to begin the complicated process of getting up to speed on the details of taking over the military and other sectors of government. The State Department had also heard nothing from Trump’s emissaries, even as Trump’s staff released an extensive roster of foreign leaders who had spoken with Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
Late Wednesday, Trump’s aides promised the plan for Thursday is to name members of teams that would visit federal agencies to begin transition efforts, starting with the State Department, national security, the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense.
Get the latest about the Trump transition on Trail Guide and follow @latimespolitics.
I’m Christina Bellantoni. Welcome to Essential Politics.
California’s vote differs so much from the national pattern for two main reasons, David Lauter explains. First, nonwhite voters, a group that is heavily Democratic, make up a significantly bigger share of the state’s electorate than the national one. Second, the state’s white voters are more likely to define themselves as liberals and identify with Democrats than are whites in the rest of the country. In California, white voters made up about 56% of the state’s electorate, according to a USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times post-election poll of California voters, conducted by SurveyMonkey.
Clinton carried those white voters 55% to 40% over Donald Trump, blacks by 84% to 13%, Latinos by 73% to 22% and all other voters by 57% to 35%, the survey found. She also won among both men and women in the Golden State.
On the flip side, Paige St. John takes readers to the outlier of Susanville in California’s Lassen County, where 73% of voters cast ballots for Trump. It was the Republican’s strongest vote in the state.
As of Wednesday night, Clinton was leading Trump by about 1.2 million votes nationwide, a margin that has grown steadily since election day. She is up in California by 3.1 million votes with 3.5 million votes left to count.
Given those numbers, George Skelton writes in his Thursday column that the president-elect was right about one thing: The election was rigged. He argues now is the time to think hard about getting rid of the Electoral College system.
TRACKING THE TRANSITION
Even as Trump’s transition team argued everything was humming along after a rough patch Tuesday, there was little indication the group had progressed toward assembling an administration, and questions remained unanswered about the level of influence that Trump’s family would exert in the new White House.
Lisa Mascaro and Noah Bierman report that rooms set aside for Trump staffers at the Pentagon remained vacant Wednesday, an indication that Trump’s team had yet to begin the complicated process of getting up to speed on the details of taking over the military and other sectors of government. The State Department had also heard nothing from Trump’s emissaries, even as Trump’s staff released an extensive roster of foreign leaders who had spoken with Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
Late Wednesday, Trump’s aides promised the plan for Thursday is to name members of teams that would visit federal agencies to begin transition efforts, starting with the State Department, national security, the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense.
Get the latest about the Trump transition on Trail Guide and follow @latimespolitics.
Nov 17, 2016 16:38:20 #
Progressive One wrote:
You had a feeling California was different from th... (show quote)
Yep, those CA voters are some real weirdos, no doubt about it. Didn't have the sense that most of the rest of the country had. Just one, of many, reasons why I escaped from CA years ago.
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