The worst hit district in California is CA-03 way up north. Only 4% of the population is black. The district has the 15th highest foreclosure rate in America, nearly 18,000 families out on the streets, and their representative is one of California’s craziest extremists, Dan Lungren. (As you can see from the photo, he isn’t black either… not by any stretch of the imagination.) Lungren, with ZERO help from the DCCC, came close to defeat in November (he was re-elected with 50% of the vote, while Obama and McCain were tied). Another far right ideologue who was nearly defeated by a political unknown in November is the GOP’s corrupt screwball Ken Calvert in CA-44, the 21st hardest hit district in America (second worst in California), with 16,043. Obama beat McCain in the formerly solid-red Inland Empire district and Calvert’s winning percentage was 52%. The district is 5.5% African-American, so the Republican racist mantra about who gets foreclosed on won’t fly there either.

Other Republicans in similar situations are, in order of how badly their districts are faring, freshman Tom McClintock (CA-04- 15,994 foreclosures), Mary Bono Mack (CA-25- 15,328 foreclosures), Buck McKeon (CA-25- 14,898), David Dreier (CA-26-13,487 foreclosures), and Wally Herger (CA-02- 10,909 foreclosures). They all voted “no” and not one of them coasted to victory in November. Obama won in McKeon’s, Dreier’s and Bono-Mack’s districts. And McClintock’s win was so razor thin that it took weeks of recounts to finally be decided; I suspect a great many of the people who voted for him are having very severe cases of buyers’ remorse.

Maybe the Republicans won’t have to worry though. After all, they have a somewhat off-kilter Michael Steele (not to mention Mark Sanford) doing outreach for them to minority communities. You think this’ll work?