McCain says he won't concede California

John McCain is boldly promising to mount the most serious Republican presidential campaign for California in years as part of a strategy that targets the entire Democratic-leaning West Coast. Arizona Republic.

California, the state with 55 prized electoral votes, once upon a time was the home base of President Reagan, one of McCain's GOP heroes. But Republicans haven't carried the state in a presidential race or won a Senate seat since 1988.

And, with an increasingly influential Latino population, California is central to any Democratic plan to capture 270 electoral votes and retake the White House.

An Aside:
Californians have heard this before, most notably from President Bush in his first campaign, but it turned out to be little more than a feint to try to get Democrats to spend their money to preserve California.