CA-Gov. Megathread: Newsom versus Cox

[President Johnson]

I created a new thread since the previous ones were about the primary campaign.


It's now official: Governor Jerry Brown has endorsed Gavin Newsom at a campaign rally. Not a surprise, but a great move.

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Ventura County Star

Massive FF endorses massive FF.

Yeah Newsom has this the question is what percent will Cox get. I'd say 36% he'll definitely out preform Trump but I don't think he has the appeal to win over a lot of the Moderates who voted for Kashkari and became Romney-Clinton voters which California has a lot of.

I suspect he'll end up with about 37% or 38%, and Newsom 62% or 63%. The bigger question is how popular Newsom will be? Sometimes I believe he may have popular start and then become Gray Davis 2.0. But it's just a feeling, not evidence based.

[President Johnson]

I suspect he'll end up with about 37% or 38%, and Newsom 62% or 63%. The bigger question is how popular Newsom will be? Sometimes I believe he may have popular start and then become Gray Davis 2.0. But it's just a feeling, not evidence based.

I went to one of his speeches a few weeks back and one of my friends asked him about the budget. Newsom said that he supported a balanced budget (and pointed to his record in SF), but noted that he thought that he might have to deal with a recession as opposed to Brown, who has had a booming economy for most of his second stint.

The same essentially happend to Gray Davis. He came into office in 1999 after a landslide victory during the new economy and invested in education while leaving some surplus in the treasury. By 2001 things began to worsen due to an economic downturn and the electricity crisis and he was running record deficits. After his narrow reelection in 2002, as we know, he got thrown out of office in the recall. But Arnie didn't really solve the budget problem, Brown straightened it out.

[President Johnson]

With the latest vote dump, Newsom has cracked 60% of the vote share on CNN. He's also close to 5 million votes now. According to CNN, 72% are in, but that number hasn't changed since Friday or so.

[President Johnson]

With the latest vote dump, Newsom has cracked 60% of the vote share on CNN. He's also close to 5 million votes now. According to CNN, 72% are in, but that number hasn't changed since Friday or so.

That's good to hear. Prior to this, David Ige in Hawaii was the only Democratic Governor to breach 60%. Three Republicans did so last Tuesday-Charlie Baker, Asa Hutchinson, and Mark Gordon. Newsom cracking 60% makes the map more aesthetically pleasing.

Too bad Andrew Cuomo "only" got 59% in New York, although he broke Nelson Rockefeller's record from 1970 for the most votes cast (3.3 million) in any New York gubernatorial election. Tom Wolf also made it close to 58% in his election.

Gavin Newsom should also break the record for the most votes ever cast in the gubernatorial election California. And therefore the most votes ever cast in any gubernatorial election in America.