Recent figures show Democrats now are 43.75% of registrants. Republicans have dropped to just 32.53%, which gives the Democrats a 11.2% advantage.
There are now 7,053,860 Democrats compared with 6,518,631 four years ago.
Republicans have dropped from 5,364,832 four years ago to 5,244,394. A loss of over 120,000 registered Republicans…that is a political disaster by any measure and the State GOP seems to have no response.
19.4% are now independant voters out of the total of 16,123,787 voters and it looks like most of these have come from the Republican ranks.
Butte county has 158,470 elgible voters, 115,144 are registered. 40, 796 or 35.43% are Democrat and 45,954 are Republican or 39.91%.
You have to go all the way back to 1932 before you find a time when the Republicans actually led Democrats in this state! In 1922 the GOP had a 3 to one advantage and they have been losing ground ever since.
Nov. will be a do or die for the California Republican Party.
The GOP will have one last chance to make stand and if this election doesn’t go their way and begin to reverse the trend, it could spell utter disaster for the GOP. Once Dems get that 2/3rd majority in legislature it will make them VETO proof and at the same time it would make the GOP almost irrelevant. At that point whatever crumbs the Dems want to toss the Republicans will be all they will get.