Democrats lead Calif. Central Valley voter registration battle but still lose election war
Source: Fresno Bee
A decade ago, Republicans were painting Fresno County red, and the wider central San Joaquin Valley was being portrayed as California's new GOP epicenter — a worthy successor to rock-ribbed conservative bastions Orange County and the Inland Empire.
Then something happened: Democrats clawed out of a registration deficit nearly 25,000 voters deep. By the middle of 2010, they had retaken the lead they had relinquished in 2000. In the latest numbers from the Secretary of State's Office, the Democratic Party registration lead had grown to almost 8,000 voters.
But it's one thing to register Democrats and quite another to translate the registration advantage into election wins.
... "There's no doubt that Republicans are living on borrowed time in Fresno," California Democratic Party spokesman Tenoch Flores said. "The turnaround takes time. It's not going to happen overnight, but it's going to happen."
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