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A GOP surprise: House midterm hopes rise in blue California
« on: May 14, 2018, 01:45:55 pm »
 A GOP surprise: House midterm hopes rise in blue California

Predictions of a Democratic washout are premature, an increasingly confident group of House Republican incumbents say.

By RACHAEL BADE

05/14/2018 05:00 AM EDT

IRVINE, Calif. — Democrats boasted as recently as a few months ago that GOP Rep. Mimi Walters was as good as gone.

Hillary Clinton carried her educated Orange County district comfortably in 2016. Then Walters backed some of the most polarizing planks of President Donald Trump’s agenda: repealing Obamacare and a tax cut bill that scrapped popular deductions used by her constituents.

Yet six months before Election Day, the 55-year-old former investment banker and other members of California’s endangered GOP congressional delegation are upbeat about surviving the much-predicted Democratic wave. A voter referendum on the November ballot to repeal a state gasoline tax — which Walters helped raise millions of dollars for — has invigorated the conservative base, they say.

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Re: A GOP surprise: House midterm hopes rise in blue California
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2018, 04:16:27 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on May 14, 2018, 01:45:55 pm
A GOP surprise: House midterm hopes rise in blue California

Predictions of a Democratic washout are premature, an increasingly confident group of House Republican incumbents say.

By RACHAEL BADE

05/14/2018 05:00 AM EDT

IRVINE, Calif. — Democrats boasted as recently as a few months ago that GOP Rep. Mimi Walters was as good as gone.

Hillary Clinton carried her educated Orange County district comfortably in 2016. Then Walters backed some of the most polarizing planks of President Donald Trump’s agenda: repealing Obamacare and a tax cut bill that scrapped popular deductions used by her constituents.

Yet six months before Election Day, the 55-year-old former investment banker and other members of California’s endangered GOP congressional delegation are upbeat about surviving the much-predicted Democratic wave. A voter referendum on the November ballot to repeal a state gasoline tax — which Walters helped raise millions of dollars for — has invigorated the conservative base, they say.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/14/california-republicans-midterms-walters-584289

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Re: A GOP surprise: House midterm hopes rise in blue California
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2018, 04:43:28 pm »
If divided into 3 states, each would still among the largest

Calif is not a monolith. After Texas Calif had the next most Trump votes.
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Re: A GOP surprise: House midterm hopes rise in blue California
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2018, 01:02:33 am »
Republicans?
Win again in California?
Brings this to mind:

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