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Feinstein is not the problem.
Dianne Feinstein's right-of-center political record has never been a secret. She's essentially a "Lieberman Democrat." Rather than ask why she is what she is, it's more useful to ask why Californians vote for her anyway. When she was mayor of SF, the foreign-policy implications of her politics did not come into play, except very occasionally. Also, even liberal big cities can be quite authoritarian just under the skin, because of their built-in fear of the urban poor. That's why NY gets people like Koch and Guiliani. It's also worth remembering that CA is NOT a "deep blue" state. Once you move away from the Bay Area and Greater LA and head into the Central Valley or the mountains, you might as well be Kansas.