California Senate Result Is A Foreboding Sign For Republican Party

The results in the California primary to choose who will replacing the retiring Senator Barbara Boxer should be a clear sign for the future for the entire Republican party.  In California, only the top two vote-getters in the primary advance to the November election and yesterday those two were both Democratic minority women, Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez. So, for the first time in a century, there will be no Republican on the ballot in a California Senate race. As the non-white population of California grew, so did the Democratic share of the vote until now they control the state legislature, the governorship, and both Senate seats.  The Republican party has shrunk almost to the point of irrelevance in the state.

California has long been a bellwether state – trends that start there tend to slowly move across the rest of the country. With a growing minority population, continued Republican attacks on minority voting rights, and truly racist rhetoric from the Republican Presidential nominee, the future for the Republican party in many states around the country could look more and more like California and much sooner than many in the party seem to believe.