{"id":33648,"date":"2018-11-19T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33648"},"modified":"2018-11-19T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:50:12","slug":"once-solidly-gop-county-portends-a-sea-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33648","title":{"rendered":"Once solidly GOP county portends a sea change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is a map of a southern California county that President Reagan once said was the place where “good Republicans go to die.”<\/p>\n

The image on the left shows the county with all but one congressional district represented by Republicans; the image on the right shows the county after the 2018 midterm election. It’s all blue. Every single CD in Orange County now is represented by Democrats.<\/p>\n

Is this a bellwether of what is happening to the national political landscape? I am not smart enough to answer that one directly. Although I would venture to suggest that President Reagan, wherever he is, would be mighty displeased at how this map demonstrates the chameleon-like nature of a once-faithful Republican stronghold.<\/p>\n

I strongly doubt the Democrats who seized control of Orange County, Calif., are of the pinko\/socialist<\/em> variety of, say, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the young woman elected to represent a New York City district in the next Congress.<\/p>\n

Still, the new congressmen and women coming from Orange County are going to align with the party that opposes Donald John Trump’s agenda — whatever it entails. You see, I have difficulty wrapping my arms around the president’s agenda, because it changes daily, if not hourly. Which is what happens when a party is led by a man without a semblance of a political philosophy or moral grounding. But \u2026 that’s another story for another day.<\/p>\n

Pundits nationally are wondering if Orange County portends a sea change for the 2020 election cycle, the campaign for which began the moment the results came in on the 2018 midterm election.<\/p>\n

The U.S. House has flipped from GOP to Democratic control. As more races are settled in districts around the country, the Democratic grip on the House keeps tightening just a little more. The U.S. Senate is nominally more Republican than before the election; Democrats, though, made a fight of it in places where they weren’t supposed to do well \u2026 such as in Texas!<\/p>\n

I believe the map shown on this blog post just might signal a result that illustrates a rejection of Donald Trump’s leadership, no matter what the president might say to the contrary.<\/p>\n

That, I also believe, is a good thing.<\/p>\n\n

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