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Why California's Republican John Cox looks increasingly likely to win
American Thinker, Sep 22, 2018, Monica Showalter

The trend is unmistakable. In the California governor's race, Repubican John Cox, against all expectations, is closing in on the lead held by Democrat Gavin Newsom, according to polls.  An astute city-hall-type reporter at the Los Angeles Times, in a column titled, 'Do Gavin Newsom and John Cox want the same job?', put her finger on it:

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Democrat Gavin Newsom casts himself as the leader of the state’s resistance to President Trump, pushing big-ticket issues such as healthcare, education and climate change.

Republican John Cox has focused on pocketbook issues that are narrow in scope but emotionally charged — repealing California’s increased gas tax, and problems at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

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So here we have Gavin Newsom bloviating about being the 'resistence,' running comical little movies depicting Donald Trump and making all kinds of statements about on broad national topics such as global warming, free education, free health care, immigration, defending 'reproductive rights', ending the war on drugs. and taking on the Trump administration, claiming California will be the global leader. It just sounds so grand.

Then we have John Cox talking about real problems that affect normal people, such as the long wait times and utter incompetence of the California DMV,  the detested gas tax which hasn't brought us any new highways, the high cost of California housing compared to other places, the fact that people are living out of their cars because they have been priced out the market, the lousy standard of living in San Francisco where the poop police walk around with cleanup shovels, and the other real stuff.


More:  https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/why_californias_republican_john_cox_looks_increasingly_likely_to_win.html

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Re: Why California's Republican John Cox looks increasingly likely to win
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2018, 01:01:58 pm »
Wow.  Could this happen??