Politics in the San Francisco Bay Area is widely regarded as one of the most liberal in the country.
[1] Since 1960, the nine-county Bay Area has voted for Republican presidential candidates only twice: in 1972 for Richard Nixon and in 1980 for Ronald Reagan, both Californians.
According to the Cook Partisan Voting Index (CPVI), congressional districts the Bay Area tends to favor Democratic candidates by roughly 40 to 50 percentage points, considerably above the mean for California and the nation overall.
All congressional districts in the region voted for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain in the 2008 Presidential Election.
[12][13] The only remaining major active duty military installations are Travis Air Force Base[14] and Coast Guard Island.