Obama'land

California remained a Democratic bastion on Novemeber 4th, with Obama winning every single demographic except 65-year-old+ whites, Evangelicals, conservatives, those who own guns, those who voted Bush in 2004, those who approve of the war in Iraq, and those who want to drill for off-shore oil. Those in the Inland/Valley region were most likely to vote McCain.

Talk about playing to stereotypes.

Prop. 8 Passed

Did Barack's appeal to AA's help defeat Prop. 8?

And the last prediction is...

No surprise, but the high turnout in California is falling hard for Obama. Southern California seems to trend more conservatively, with all three of the up-for-grabs House seats safe in Republican territory. The state's Republican governor has been on the campaign trail with McCain recently, but Swarzenegger is primarily being used for his moderate views and appeal to independent voters. The only really heated race is in California's 4th, where the Republican and Democratic challengers are within about a point of one another according to pollster.com's average. It does look like McClintock (R) will pull it out based on polling trends, but it will be close.

Prop. 8 passions are high heading in to election day

Massive turnout may lead to delayed results

In California registered voters have risen to 17.3 million, which is larger that any state population other than Texas, New York and Florida. Coupled with the huge increase in mail-in ballot which cannot be counted until after all poll ballots are counted, the situation could turn in to a long night for poll officials left to count the ballots. Some counties are expecting as much as an 80 percent turnout, along with lines that continue far past the intended closing time of 8 p.m.

What's making this year so exciting? The guarantee that either the first black or the first woman will be in office in the next couple of months is certainly part of it, but another reason is that the propositions on the ballot this cycle are many and heated. Proposition 8, the proposition to over-turn the states' Supreme court ruling in favor of gay marriage, is the most expensive campaign in American other than the presidential campaigns themselves.

Is Obama a girly-man?

Schwarzenegger attacks Obama's skinny legs, experience, tax policies.

Holloween or election day?

In Redonda Beach a mother of two young children included a hanging effigy of Senator Barack Obama in her elaborate Halloween lawn set up. In part the set-up was in response to an effigy of Governor Sarah Palin that's been hanging from a noose at a home in West Hollywood for weeks. The Obama display was taken down after representatives from the McCain campaign visited the woman's house and asked that the display be taken down.