Orange Country Turns Blue

[applegrove]

Orange Country Turns Blue

November 19, 2022 at 3:33 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 65 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/19/orange-country-turns-blue/

"SNIP......


“For the first time since Gerald Ford was president, an election has turned control of the Orange County Board of Supervisors over to the Democratic Party,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“It marks the latest shift in a county so famously conservative that former President Reagan once described it as ‘where the good Republicans go before they die.'”

.......SNIP"

[barbtries]

1. ha!

my foxbot brother and his wife moved out of there to OR - it's all his fault!!

[Sky Jewels]

3. Tell him we don't want him here in Oregon

and that he should go East, to the Foxbot promised land … Idaho.

[barbtries]

5. I have relatives there too.

my brother and SIL need to be near the ocean though, i think.

i also have a half uncle who lives there - Bend, OR - and he's as brainwashed as my brother. Plus a friend's daughter from Portland or near Portland who's just as right wing as those people.

From my perspective, OR is not blue enough. But don't think I'm throwing stones - I live in NC, which is hurdling toward being AL or MS as fast as it can.

still homesick for CA after 15 years.

[OMGWTF]

8. I love my two left coast home states of Washington and California.

True Blue!

[barbtries]

11. exactly. me too

my niece moved from ID to WA to take advantage of the health care options there, but now she has moved back to ID where the people are mostly racist right wingers just like she is. We're able to get along because we don't discuss politics. My sister has Alzheimer's and she's her caregiver so there's no question of going silent they way my brother and I have.

[Sky Jewels]

22. I grew up mostly in California (Bay Area)

Early childhood was in the Midwest. Then we moved to the East Bay. I’ve also lived on the East Coast and in Colorado. California was great in the 70s when I was a kid. The livin’ was easy, especially for me. And I had a great time bopping around San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley in the 80s. But I never got used to how brown and dry California can get. Not a desert person, I guess. I love the Northwest and will never live in California again.

[usonian]

2. YAY! This is awesome.

Greedy and self-centered conservatives can have a change of heart.

Makes me feel BLUE.

[barbtries]

12. I think it's more likely

that a whole lot of young people voted for a change. Either way, I'm happy for it.

[AllaN01Bear]

15. indeed. but i voted to perserve democracy.

[barbtries]

16. and I thank you for your vote.

it's true that it counts more in OC than most of SoCal

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Hold that thought

Thanks, Ronnie, you were clairvoyant

[YoshidaYui]

6. YAY

ABOUT TIME!!

[OMGWTF]

7. I stayed at a decent hotel near the John Wayne Airport about 15 years ago and the TV in the room

reverted back to Fux News no matter where you left the channel when you turned it off. Fux was also playing in the breakfast room.

[iluvtennis]

9. Awesome 👏. n/t

[Mordred]

10. Great but

as a resident of OC, I have a Repub representative for the first time in 25 years coupled with a re-elected Repub State Sen and newly elected Repub assemblyman.

Not so blue in this part of the OC....

[applegrove]

14. Damn. At least thee local races are changing.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

18. Costa Mesa got the majority Dems in 2018 on the CC.

Supervisor Foley was elected Mayor then and the OC GOP kind of lost its MOJO. They targeted our friend, but she's holding on by a wisker.

Hopefully the OC GOP realizes it can't hold on to power by handing land to developers who don't care about people.

[mcar]

13. This is what we, as Dems, need to do

Flip local, and state seats. Well done!

[AllaN01Bear]

17. yay. wish la county would.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

21. Huh?

[The Unmitigated Gall]

19. Pukes are good WHEREVER they kick the bucket, Ronnie.

[republianmushroom]

20. I like it