Under GOP Rule California Was Golden State – Now It’s the Poverty-Stricken Broke State

(Conservatively Speaking) Andrew Leonard at Salon wrote a piece this week titled, “The GOP’s horrible California nightmare.” The title of the piece should have been “California’s Democratic nightmare.” From the article: Before 1992, California had not given its electoral votes to a Democrat running for president since Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 electoral landslide.