00s Leftists

[Keith McMullen]

from:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-op-meyerson3nov030
01512,0,7117083.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dsuncomment

On Tuesday, California voters will go to the polls and most likely entrust
their state entirely to Democrats. Despite the fact that the Democratic
ticket is headed by an incumbent governor about as popular as a strain of
bacteria, every Democratic candidate for statewide office is leading in the
polls. The party's huge majorities in the state's legislative and
congressional delegations will remain intact not just in this election but
for the foreseeable future.

For a state that was the spawning ground of modern American conservatism --
home to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Howard Jarvis -- this total
make-over into the nation's foremost Democratic bastion has been stunning.
But this partisan realignment is just one aspect of the transformation of
America's mega-state. In fact, California has become by many measures the
most liberal state in the land.