California’s democratic primaries saw a boost in early visits from Democratic Presidential hopefuls. Former New York mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, held numerous stops in places such as Fresno and Compton, in an attempt to capture some of the state’s 415 delegates-more electoral power than all four early states combined. This election season, California opted to move its voting day to Super Tuesday, causing earlier visits from the candidates. 

Director of the Center for Social Innovation, Karthick Ramakrishnan, notes how places such as the Inland Empire and Central Valley are receiving attention from candidates such as Bloomberg and Sanders. In some ways, the campaigns’ California plans seem to echo the “fishhook strategy” Republicans tried to use in the state decades ago, targeting the central region of the state and inland Southern California, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy and politics at the University of California, Riverside.

"I think this region is getting to a stage where people here expect to be treated better, in terms of having candidates actually visit and paying attention to them,” Mr. Ramakrishnan said.

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