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Originally Posted by LukeA

Not sure what gives you that idea. Once you get out of San Francisco and Los Angeles, the state leans Republican- and its not just the rural areas, either. Orange County and San Diego are decidedly Republican. The state is regularly governed by a Republican. California Republicans tend to be more the fiscally conservative type, rather than the socially conservative (ex. the South), but there are a whole lot of Mormons who enthusiastically backed Prop 8.

When you factor in the widely speculated belief that the historically large black turnout helped sway Prop 8, its not all that hard to believe that Prop 8 passed this past November. The next time it goes up to the voters (hopefully sometime next year), I think a Prop 8 overturn is in the cards.

San Diego county (where I grew up incidently) is very slowly trending Democrat..it needs to be noted for the first time ever as far as I know, a Democratic President won this county and Obama came within less than 3 % of winning in the notoriously conservative OC.( This would be almost tantamount to a Repulican President taking half the vote in San Francisco county)The inland counties ..particularly the ones populated by the decendants of the Okies still trend heavily repub..but for the most part they are sparsely populated compared to the megalopolises of SF and LA.Sacramento, now the largest inland city in Ca broke very slightly for Obama in 2008.I also think that some African Americans may have voter's remorse now that they realize that their political bedfellows on 8 are the not so long ago racist Mormons .So in light of all this I concur that a revote on 8 will likely have a different result.