Donald Trump faces long odds in heavily Democratic Sonoma County and California

Based on statistical figures alone, Donald Trump is a long shot to win approval from California’s 17 million registered voters in November.

Polls and political rhetoric aside, the lopsided Democratic advantage in registered voters statewide and in Sonoma County runs strongly against the real estate tycoon and former reality TV star, now the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president.

California’s 55 electoral college votes are the most by far — with Texas second at 38 votes — accounting for more than 10 percent of the 538 total in the college, the institution established in the U.S. Constitution that actually elects the chief executive. California, like all but two of the 50 states, awards all of its electoral votes to the winner of the state’s popular vote. To do that, Trump would have to overcome the GOP’s whopping gap of nearly 2.8 million registered voters behind the Democrats, who have 44 percent of voters compared with 28 percent for Republicans. For the full article click here 

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