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Blue-state California gives Republicans the blues

 

Published 11/6/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

Barack Obama's margin of victory is a modern day-record for the state. Even budding GOP strongholds such as Riverside and San Bernardino counties back the Democrat. > The cobalt blue of California's electoral map masks conflicting hues of political ideology, and Tuesday's election results were an emphatic reminder. Barack Obama won the biggest victory in modern state history, smashing the record set in 1964 in Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide election, but not a single Republican member of Congress was defeated. (link)

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