Specifically...what “great strides?”  The real voter “backlash” was against the constitutional overreaches, plus the tax, borrow and spend socialist policies put forth by Barack Obama...and that Hillary Clinton promised to continue.

And you would have been wrong, Zukka! Obama has lied to us about the nature and details of his socialist agenda (especially the nature and costs of “Obamacare”), exceeded his constitutional authority on many occasions to unilaterally change legislatively-passed laws and bypass Congress, violated his sworn oath of…

California is so far in debt now that they would NEVER survive fiscally without aid from the federal government; but go for it CA! Good riddance.