California House Races 2014

2012 was a fantastic year for Democrats in California. Obama won 60% of the vote here, Democrats won 2/3 majorities in the State Assembly an...

My Last California Congressional District Rankings

These are my last rankings before the Presidential election on California's Congressional Districts. After the California Redistricting ...

Competitive California Congressional Districts

My last analysis of the California Congressional Districts was in May before the top two primary elections which will determine the two cand...

California State Senate Races Guide and Analysis

In 2011, the California Redistricting Commission redrew California's Congressional lines, California's Senate lines and California...

Analysis of California's Congressional Districts (January Edition)

This post is my January 2012 analysis of California's congressional districts. My November 2012 analysis before the November 6th 2012 el...

The Candidates Forum for California's 2nd Congressional District

I attended a forum for the Congressional Candidates for California's 2nd Congressional District on October 21st in the Marin Academy Hig...

Analysis of California's Proposed Congressional Maps: Part II

This is the 2nd post out of three posts analyzing California's new congressional redistricting maps.This post covers districts 18-35. Th...

Thoughts on California's Redistricting Commission's Meeting June 27th

I attended the May 19th commission meeting in Santa Rosa, Ca. My analysis of that meeting is here: http://racesandredistricting.blogspot.com...

Analysis of California's Proposed Congressional Redistricting Maps Part I

On November 2nd, 2010, California voters passed Proposition 20 allowing a commission composed of 5 Democrats, 5 Republicans and 4 Independen...

Thoughts from the California Redistricting Commission Meeting

As you may know, redistricting is one of my biggest passions and California's redistricting situation is no exception. I have written th...

California Redistricting: The Democrat's Proposal (Updated with Demographics)

Before November 2nd 2010, it appeared that Democrats would control the redistricting process because most polls suggested Jerry Brown (D) wo...

How will the housekeeper scandal affect Whitman?

 The California Governorship is one of those races where the leader keeps changing. In early 2009, former Governor Jerry Brown (D) led forme...

California U.S House Rankings

 As Michael Barone put it, "Between 1995 and 2005, politics was trench warfare where each side tried to have stronger enthusiasm. Now w...

California Baselines

  With Arnold Schwarzenegger retiring, Democrats thought they would have a great shot at picking up California's Governorship. Then, the...

What to watch this election night for California races

On May 18th, everyone called that day the Super Tuesday for primaries. They apparently were not thinking about this Tuesday, June 8th. Today...

California Redistricting

(Beware, this post is very long so read if you are not in a rush.) First, this is finally finished! It took me a couple of months to map and...

New Version of Villaraigosa Article

Recently, Obama went to Costa Mesa in Orange County to give a speech. Why did he go to a Republican area in California instead of a heavily ...