Government
Nearly all congressional districts in the region are left-leaning with a mean Cook Partisan Voting Index of D +13.3, meaning that a Democratic presidential candidate will, on average, be 13.3 percentage points ahead of his Republican opponent. The Cook Partisan Index in coastal California ranges from D +9 in California's 23rd congressional district, which includes coastal San Luis Obispo county to D +20 in the 30th district, which includes Malibu, West Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, to D +36 in Nancy Pelosi's 8th district, which includes most of San Francisco.
In contrast with most coastal counties of California, only Del Norte County, San Luis Obispo County, Ventura County, Orange County, and San Diego County voted for incumbent Republican president George W. Bush in 2004. San Francisco County, the most Democratic county, voted 83% for Kerry. In 2008, only Del Norte and Orange Counties voted for John McCain with margins of less than 5% while San Francisco remained the most Democratic county, voting 84% for Barack Obama.
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“A government of laws, and not of men.”
—John Adams (1735–1826)
“We talk about a representative government; but what a monster of a government is that where the noblest faculties of the mind, and the whole heart, are not represented! A semihuman tiger or ox, stalking over the earth, with its heart taken out and the top of its brain shot away. Heroes have fought well on their stumps when their legs were shot off, but I never heard of any good done by such a government as that.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)