Election 2018: Orange County GOP battles an increasingly blue electorate

While Orange County Republicans fight to hold their four congressional seats in today’s election, they’re up against a Democratic wave that’s been building for 28 years.
In 1990, the county GOP’s 22-percentage point voter-registration advantage over Democrats marked an apex in one of the party’s most famous strongholds.
That edge has been shrinking ever since and is now a negligible 1.2 points. The county’s Asian voters, once a reliable GOP vote, saw their reg