Miss California Controversy (from Rumours)

[LukeA]

Originally Posted by jwd

But yet California, what most people would classify as a liberal state and heavily Democrat

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.