Junior Congressman Brad Sherman won the new 30th
District, despite the line-up of the entire Democratic Congressional Delegation,
plus a few Republican Senators who supported the elder statesman Howard Berman.
What happened? Geography and local legacy
happened, and both were against Berman from the beginning.
One week has passed for the voters and the
pundits to pause and reflect on Election Day 2012. I “wanna get into” the
lessons that we can learn from the contentious 30th Congressional
district race.
The voters chose the candidate. Statewide incumbents
and delegations lost power.
The growing clout of the Hispanic vote is emerging.
If Republicans pay more attention to streamlining the welfare programs and the
naturalization process, the Democratic Party will lose its disillusioned hold
on Hispanics.
The Framers’ intent for Congressional
districts, their expectations about the outcomes of the popular vote, has been
maintained once again. District elections belong to voters, not to pundits.
Republicans can retool their message to reach
out to minorities and every other voter still feeling the pinch of spend-thrift
government still unchecked. The next two years will be Democratic infighting on
a statewide scale, with nothing but opportunities for the Republican Party to
take back the state.
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