I believe the fact that Newsom is the lead 2028 presidential contender of the Democratic Party pretty much says where that party is right now in understanding what the US population wants.
He is behind Harris according the the Echelon poll in the fourth paragraph.
Harris couldn't answer a softball question tossed out by a kindergarten teacher. Any question at all brought forth panic and a vacuous look. Questions like how much she loves apple pie and what not. I've never seen a worse candidate, ever.
The fact that she polls in front of Newsome is an indicator of what portion of the Democratic party is completely out of touch.
Ok I should have said “a lead candidate” instead of the lead candidate. I think I dismiss Harris because I simply cannot believe that even the democratic base would be that stupid.
Newsome photographs well. His wife looks young and they have four or five good looking blond kids. Newsome also gives quick glib answers to interview questions. Is that good enough? Good enough to be the best current Dem in my opinion.
Newsome also has a history to make AOC blush, and zero policy offerings. Newsome will be running against Vance not Trump, and Vance is a heck of a lot sharper than many realize.
I'd be happier if the Democratic Party offered up some better ideas, like if they competed for my vote on substance. Like tariffs without the corruption, humanitarian repatriation of the millions they brought here, but without the huge tax breaks to fat cats, without firing most of government oversight, keeping our regulators, and modernizing entitlements so they actually support those truly in need. Unfortunately we have no candidates.
Most Americans have no idea how "neo fuedal " CA has become to quote Joel Kotkin.
40% of Californians only have healthcare because they are enrolled in Medicaid.
The Public Policy CA Institute , a non partisan think tank established by HP founders in the 90s to study all things Californian, calculates when the actual cost of living is considered, 1/3 of Golden Staters live in poverty or just slightly better. In economic downturns, that number can approach 40%.
CA is home to roughly 13% of the US population, but 1/3 of all US homeless people.
CA is the birthplace of "energy poverty". A term coined for the 10% of Golden Staters that must choose between eating and paying energy bills at the end of each month. Newsom is responsible for many expensive Green regulations, that produce some of the highest US energy costs, despite the mild climate.
For years CA had the highest percentage of school children enrolled in free and reduced lunch, until last year when Newsom decided to pay for all kids, to make the stat vanish. CA schools, once the envy of the US, are now rated in the bottom 2 quintiles for test scores. CA Black children suffer such lousy educations, they would enjoy higher test scores dropped into most schools in the Deep South.
For more than a decade, more than 80% of CA jobs created, have paid below the CA median wage. A large chunk, pay wages in the bottom 2 quintiles. In LA 62% of all jobs created are low skilled. CA Blue Collar wages fall into the bottom quintile of state Blue Collar wages for the entire US, despite the high cost of CA living. Economically speaking, Texas Hispanic families, live 1/3 better than their CA counterparts.
Corporations cannot flee CA fast enough. More than a few hundred just since Covid. Chevron was the latest, they will not be the last. Oil refineries too. CA currently has 1/2 the refining capacity it had, when the population was 1/2 as large. The cost of energy in CA has gone from bad to worse, with no end in sight.
Ditto for people. CA is set to lose 4 seats in the 2030 Census, due to population decline, despite the best weather in the US. Should SCOTUS determine those dwelling illegally in the US, will not be counted for apportionment, CA would lose another 5 seats, in addition to the 4.
Most people assume what CA produces most, are tech innovations or Hollywood Stars. What CA really produces, on a mass scale, is poverty. And Newsom has been there, in some capacity, for nearly every step back. 1/2 of 1% of CA families, some 150K, pay 1/2 of all state income taxes, for a state of 39 million. Gavin has been, in many ways, a one man wrecking ball for CA living standards. Give him the opportunity, and Newsom will take his economic destruction national, to a town or city near you.
I’m a native Californian. Ronda’s comments are facts - Newsom has wreaked havoc on the state. She could have gone on to add his policies that have fomented a rise in retail theft and prostitution, deteriorating quality of life in struggling communities, poor Fire and Water planning and cronyism. From a practical policy standpoint, he ranks dead last of any Democratic candidate.
While he has politically thrived in the Bay Area Democratic bubble that has always dominated the state’s politics (funded by the Getty fortune), his debate with Florida governor Ron DeSantis was very telling. He came across as vapid, petty and shockingly uninformed.
Regardless of party, Newsom would be a complete disaster for our country.
Democrats cannot nominate another Republican lite person. The nominee has to believe in something other than anti Trumpism. Mamdani in NYC has convinced people that he is about reducing the costs of living. Whether that is inflation, gas or egg prices or whatever he has proposed solutions to do that. You may not agree with his solutions but you have the chance to change what has been done by proposing your own solution. That’s all anyone wants is a genuine effort to make life worth living.
If Democrats have not learned from the failed and humiliating Biden presidency that simply being "not Trump" is not going to be enough to hold the White House, then their continuing succession of failures will be as deserved as they are inevitable.
The very future of the nation's oldest political party is on the line, so get serious folks. Or at least more serious than the handsome political hack Gavin Newsom.
Honestly, do not think GN is handsome. He is photogenic in a kind of GQ way, but if we were going to score D. men on looks I suggest Colin Allred, Jared Golden, or Ruben Gallego.
My model has J.D. Vance beating Newsome with 320 EVs, possibly as high as 340. But we have 16 months of further deportations, voter registration shifts, and CA voter roll purges, not to mention a possible census redo. That Vance total could be higher. Currently I do not have Newsome or any Democrat candidate addressing the "five civil wars" in the party I have elaborated on, and indeed probably would exacerbate them.
A lot can happen between now and the Democratic primary for the 2028 presidential election. Much of this will depend on what happens with the balance of the trump administration. But I think that even more will depend on the Democrat response. So far the Democrat response is very weak. I will venture to say that Newsome has absolutely no chance of getting the Democratic nomination. Pritzker has no chance of getting the nomination. The only Democrat on the scene that I can see getting the nomination at this point is Sherrod Brown. The Democratic Party is destroying itself in many ways. But there is one way I believe that it doesn’t even understand what it is doing, and that is that the Democrat party is embracing all forms of antisemitism. All forms and now many of top leaders! now there might not be enough Jews in this country to turn around a presidential election but they will be a factor. We shall look to the 2026 midterms for an indicator.
I believe the fact that Newsom is the lead 2028 presidential contender of the Democratic Party pretty much says where that party is right now in understanding what the US population wants.
He is behind Harris according the the Echelon poll in the fourth paragraph.
Harris couldn't answer a softball question tossed out by a kindergarten teacher. Any question at all brought forth panic and a vacuous look. Questions like how much she loves apple pie and what not. I've never seen a worse candidate, ever.
The fact that she polls in front of Newsome is an indicator of what portion of the Democratic party is completely out of touch.
Ok I should have said “a lead candidate” instead of the lead candidate. I think I dismiss Harris because I simply cannot believe that even the democratic base would be that stupid.
Newsome photographs well. His wife looks young and they have four or five good looking blond kids. Newsome also gives quick glib answers to interview questions. Is that good enough? Good enough to be the best current Dem in my opinion.
Newsome also has a history to make AOC blush, and zero policy offerings. Newsome will be running against Vance not Trump, and Vance is a heck of a lot sharper than many realize.
I'd be happier if the Democratic Party offered up some better ideas, like if they competed for my vote on substance. Like tariffs without the corruption, humanitarian repatriation of the millions they brought here, but without the huge tax breaks to fat cats, without firing most of government oversight, keeping our regulators, and modernizing entitlements so they actually support those truly in need. Unfortunately we have no candidates.
Most Americans have no idea how "neo fuedal " CA has become to quote Joel Kotkin.
40% of Californians only have healthcare because they are enrolled in Medicaid.
The Public Policy CA Institute , a non partisan think tank established by HP founders in the 90s to study all things Californian, calculates when the actual cost of living is considered, 1/3 of Golden Staters live in poverty or just slightly better. In economic downturns, that number can approach 40%.
CA is home to roughly 13% of the US population, but 1/3 of all US homeless people.
CA is the birthplace of "energy poverty". A term coined for the 10% of Golden Staters that must choose between eating and paying energy bills at the end of each month. Newsom is responsible for many expensive Green regulations, that produce some of the highest US energy costs, despite the mild climate.
For years CA had the highest percentage of school children enrolled in free and reduced lunch, until last year when Newsom decided to pay for all kids, to make the stat vanish. CA schools, once the envy of the US, are now rated in the bottom 2 quintiles for test scores. CA Black children suffer such lousy educations, they would enjoy higher test scores dropped into most schools in the Deep South.
For more than a decade, more than 80% of CA jobs created, have paid below the CA median wage. A large chunk, pay wages in the bottom 2 quintiles. In LA 62% of all jobs created are low skilled. CA Blue Collar wages fall into the bottom quintile of state Blue Collar wages for the entire US, despite the high cost of CA living. Economically speaking, Texas Hispanic families, live 1/3 better than their CA counterparts.
Corporations cannot flee CA fast enough. More than a few hundred just since Covid. Chevron was the latest, they will not be the last. Oil refineries too. CA currently has 1/2 the refining capacity it had, when the population was 1/2 as large. The cost of energy in CA has gone from bad to worse, with no end in sight.
Ditto for people. CA is set to lose 4 seats in the 2030 Census, due to population decline, despite the best weather in the US. Should SCOTUS determine those dwelling illegally in the US, will not be counted for apportionment, CA would lose another 5 seats, in addition to the 4.
Most people assume what CA produces most, are tech innovations or Hollywood Stars. What CA really produces, on a mass scale, is poverty. And Newsom has been there, in some capacity, for nearly every step back. 1/2 of 1% of CA families, some 150K, pay 1/2 of all state income taxes, for a state of 39 million. Gavin has been, in many ways, a one man wrecking ball for CA living standards. Give him the opportunity, and Newsom will take his economic destruction national, to a town or city near you.
I’m a native Californian. Ronda’s comments are facts - Newsom has wreaked havoc on the state. She could have gone on to add his policies that have fomented a rise in retail theft and prostitution, deteriorating quality of life in struggling communities, poor Fire and Water planning and cronyism. From a practical policy standpoint, he ranks dead last of any Democratic candidate.
While he has politically thrived in the Bay Area Democratic bubble that has always dominated the state’s politics (funded by the Getty fortune), his debate with Florida governor Ron DeSantis was very telling. He came across as vapid, petty and shockingly uninformed.
Regardless of party, Newsom would be a complete disaster for our country.
Democrats cannot nominate another Republican lite person. The nominee has to believe in something other than anti Trumpism. Mamdani in NYC has convinced people that he is about reducing the costs of living. Whether that is inflation, gas or egg prices or whatever he has proposed solutions to do that. You may not agree with his solutions but you have the chance to change what has been done by proposing your own solution. That’s all anyone wants is a genuine effort to make life worth living.
If Democrats have not learned from the failed and humiliating Biden presidency that simply being "not Trump" is not going to be enough to hold the White House, then their continuing succession of failures will be as deserved as they are inevitable.
The very future of the nation's oldest political party is on the line, so get serious folks. Or at least more serious than the handsome political hack Gavin Newsom.
Honestly, do not think GN is handsome. He is photogenic in a kind of GQ way, but if we were going to score D. men on looks I suggest Colin Allred, Jared Golden, or Ruben Gallego.
Well, I try not to score anyone on looks, but sadly too much of politics has become almost as superficial as Gavin Newsom.
I know, me either-- but most of what we see abt GN is commentary on his looks so if Dems take looks into consideration there are other possibilities.
My model has J.D. Vance beating Newsome with 320 EVs, possibly as high as 340. But we have 16 months of further deportations, voter registration shifts, and CA voter roll purges, not to mention a possible census redo. That Vance total could be higher. Currently I do not have Newsome or any Democrat candidate addressing the "five civil wars" in the party I have elaborated on, and indeed probably would exacerbate them.
Yes and Democrats need a program
Same with the state of California. But here we are.
A lot can happen between now and the Democratic primary for the 2028 presidential election. Much of this will depend on what happens with the balance of the trump administration. But I think that even more will depend on the Democrat response. So far the Democrat response is very weak. I will venture to say that Newsome has absolutely no chance of getting the Democratic nomination. Pritzker has no chance of getting the nomination. The only Democrat on the scene that I can see getting the nomination at this point is Sherrod Brown. The Democratic Party is destroying itself in many ways. But there is one way I believe that it doesn’t even understand what it is doing, and that is that the Democrat party is embracing all forms of antisemitism. All forms and now many of top leaders! now there might not be enough Jews in this country to turn around a presidential election but they will be a factor. We shall look to the 2026 midterms for an indicator.