The election may be over, but a few races have yet to be decided.  In California, the race for Attorney General is a nail biter....too close to call with many more votes left to count.

 But while most of the country got swept up by the GOP tide during the midterm elections, the wave stopped at the California coast.  The Golden state remained solidly blue... and even republican strategists aren't surprised.   "The reason why California is so overwhelmingly democratic," says Matt Klink of Cerrell Associates," " is because you have a large Latino population that swings decidedly toward the democratic party, you have an aggressive environmental coalition throughout the state that is overwhelmingly democratic and you have a public employee union group throughout the entire state that overwhelmingly backs democrats."

Klink says during this election cycle in particular, the Latinos played a crucial role.  They made of 22 percent of the overall vote and 65 percent went towards democrats.   Why is that?  Klink and others believe a lot of it has to do with the strong anti-immigration stance many republicans took in reaction to Arizona's tough immigration law, which made it a crime to be in the country illegally.  

"When the Republican party is having an anti-immigrant platform on issues of bi-lingual education, immigration reform and other topics, then that really sours Latinos towards the Republican party," says Matt Barretto, of Latino Decisions, a group that polls and tracks the Latino vote.  "They may start to be able to make inroads on some of those socially conservative issues," says Barretto, "but when they start raising the anti-immigrant flag it's going to totally turn people off and turn people away."

 Analysts say Republicans have a tough road to hoe if they want to turn things around in California, and they have to begin by broadening their agenda and their audience.  "They need to make sure that kids, the next generation get better educated, they need to focus on job creation, instead of just saying no more new taxes, just cut cut cut," says Klink.  "They need to figure out programs that government can partner with the private sector in to help create jobs and to help give small businesses that leg up."

At the end of the day Democrats also have a major advantage when it comes to voter registration in California.  44 percent of voters call themselves Democrats, 31 percent Republicans and a whopping 20 percent are decline to state voters. 

As for the race for Attorney General here in California, it's not over until it's over, but in keeping with the ongoing trend here in the Golden State, the Democrat, Kamala Harris is in front with a slight lead.   Expect results November 30^th.