LOS ANGELES – Democrat Katie Porter captured a Republican-held U.S.
House seat Thursday in the heart of what once was Southern California’s
Reagan country, extending a rout of the state’s GOP House delegation
that might not be over.

Porter’s upset in Orange County is a sign of changing times in a region
once known nationally as a GOP fortress. The coastal county southeast of
Los Angeles was home to President Richard Nixon, and President Ronald
Reagan once likened it to a Republican heaven.

Porter, a law professor and protege of Massachusetts Democratic Sen.
Elizabeth Warren, defeated Republican Rep. Mimi Walters, who was
re-elected in a walkover just two years ago in the 45th District. The
latest update to the vote count gave Porter 51 percent and a 6,203-vote
lead.

Porter, 44, campaigned on an unabashed liberal agenda and in direct
opposition to President Donald Trump’s priorities: She advocates
overturning his tax reform package, supports universal health care, and
endorses mandatory background checks on all gun sales and a ban on
so-called assault-style weapons.

From USA Today...

On 11/16/18 6:32 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
LOS ANGELES – Democrat Katie Porter captured a Republican-held U.S.
House seat Thursday in the heart of what once was Southern California’s
Reagan country, extending a rout of the state’s GOP House delegation
that might not be over.

Porter’s upset in Orange County is a sign of changing times in a region
once known nationally as a GOP fortress. The coastal county southeast of
Los Angeles was home to President Richard Nixon, and President Ronald
Reagan once likened it to a Republican heaven.

Porter, a law professor and protege of Massachusetts Democratic Sen.
Elizabeth Warren, defeated Republican Rep. Mimi Walters, who was
re-elected in a walkover just two years ago in the 45th District. The
latest update to the vote count gave Porter 51 percent and a 6,203-vote
lead.

Porter, 44, campaigned on an unabashed liberal agenda and in direct
opposition to President Donald Trump’s priorities: She advocates
overturning his tax reform package, supports universal health care, and
endorses mandatory background checks on all gun sales and a ban on
so-called assault-style weapons.

From USA Today...

Oh. that makes 36 House seats the Dems flipped from the Repubs...and
there are still more possibilities.

On 11/16/2018 6:33 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:


Oh. that makes 36 House seats the Dems flipped from the Repubs...and
there are still more possibilities.

Two more and the number of flipped seats resulting from this election
will be equal to the average (38) mid-term election flips going back to
1862.

So, what's your point?

Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/16/2018 6:33 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:


Oh. that makes 36 House seats the Dems flipped from the Repubs...and
there are still more possibilities.

Two more and the number of flipped seats resulting from this election
will be equal to the average (38) mid-term election flips going back to
1862.

So, what's your point?



His point is really mute. As to Orange County being a Republican bastion,
that went away years ago. Orange County was originally a German enclave.
One of professors in the 1960’s had a heavy German accent. Talking to him,
he was born in Orange County and did not speak English until starting
kindergarten. Now is a high tech enclave, with lots of liberals.

On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 10:25:57 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

The GOP, if it continues on its path of "mostly aging
white men," will be catching up with the dinosaurs soon. I hope it
continues. The Dems in Congress look much more like America, and that
trend will continue.

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The real demographic divide is more along the line of those who want
the government to take care of them vs. those who want freedom to take
care of themselves.

A country can not tax itself into prosperity, only mediocrity.

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On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 13:06:34 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 10:25:57 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

The GOP, if it continues on its path of "mostly aging
white men," will be catching up with the dinosaurs soon. I hope it
continues. The Dems in Congress look much more like America, and that
trend will continue.

===

The real demographic divide is more along the line of those who want
the government to take care of them vs. those who want freedom to take
care of themselves.

A country can not tax itself into prosperity, only mediocrity.

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Agree - votes are bought with government handouts.