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Barabak: How California turned blue and changed American politics

Barabak: How California turned blue and changed American politics

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https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/06/07/barabak-how-california-turned-blue-and-changed-american-politics/

Bill Clinton was busy filling Cabinet positions and shaping his economic agenda when a memo landed from a team of political advisors. Although Clinton was still more than a month away from becoming president, the topic was his reelection nearly four years off.

The document outlined a strategy considered vital to Clinton’s hopes for a second term: Lock down California and its generous share of electoral votes so his campaign could “concentrate its energy on other, more tightly contested, states.”