Comments on: Same as it ever was

By: JTD

JTD — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:37:10 +0000

[Apologies for reposting.]

There’s a big difference between city and county political orientations, as it is in most places. Hence Bush (County including City), Frye (City).

The LA Times ran a good piece after the election about the Repubs win coming from the exurbs. So-Cal is so dense that we don’t have a lot of places that fit that description til you get to the outer counties, for us Temecula, Murieta. But in-county, places like Vista and Alpine, maybe Carlsbad. Wonder if they leaned particularly any direction…

Meanwhile, cities voted for Kerry in this election, even in red states. Seattle’s ‘The Stranger’ has a great rant/manifesto about this: The Urban Archipelago. San Diego differs only in that the city (1.3M) couldn’t carry the county (3M total).

By: Anita Cohen-Williams

Anita Cohen-Williams — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 05:57:06 +0000

Voter registrations do not mean much in the general election because voters do not always vote the party line.

By: Andrew Phelps

Andrew Phelps — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:47:33 +0000

The city of San Diego (as far as I know) has long been a Democratic city. It’s the surrounding county that’s conservative/Republican.

San Diego is a blue city in a red county in a blue state in a red country in a blue world. (Stolen from an NCTimes letter to the editor.)