Orange County is still 'mother ship' for GOP money, but shift from red to purple accelerates

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Orange County is still ‘mother ship’ for GOP money, but shift from red to purple accelerates


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But contrary to Orange County’s public image as the heart of COVID-19 denial, about 83% of residents believe the coronavirus is a real threat, according to a recent Chapman University poll. Nearly three-quarters said they would support a national mask mandate.

“We’re no longer your grandfather’s Orange County,” said Fred Smoller, a political science professor at Chapman University, who co-created the annual survey with colleague Michael Moodian. “The county has changed, and some people have woken up to those changes, and some people have not.”

Longtime Republican Dan Ardell didn’t think twice about casting his ballot against the recall.


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This isn’t the first time Ardell, 80, a Laguna Beach resident who worked in commercial real estate before retiring, has gone with a Democrat. He voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and against Trump both times.

The Republican Party as he knew it doesn’t exist anymore, said Ardell, who nevertheless has no plans to change his party registration.

“There’s the cult of Trump, and then there’s the others who are either unwilling or incapable or are going to get slaughtered if they pull away from the cult,” he said.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-03/after-recall-orange-county-still-teeters-on-red-blue-line

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1. California

Also in Florida, another in NC, etc. for a total of eight US counties.