“What the voters will be looking for in this election is someone who has some answers,” said Bruce E. Cain, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. “I do not remember the morale of the state being so low.”It's true, people in this state are pretty fed up, and right now, sadly, I don't see any of the candidates offering up much in the way of answers. Gavin is doing some savvy positioning, but I can't tell from his website how he actually thinks we should fix the state. In this New York Times article, Villaraigosa says Schwarzenegger is "doing as good a job as he can do." If he really thinks that, he certainly doesn't know what the real problems are. And Jerry Brown seems to be running because he's got nothing better to do and he thinks it would be amusing.
Not exactly a stellar field.
The reality is that if Californians want answers, they are going to have to look to forces other than the candidates for Governor. My money is on some combination of SCOPE and the Courage Campaign.
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