American liberals’ two favorite governors are in deep [fill in your favorite euphemism for excrement].
New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently escaped a Justice Department investigation of his policy of shuttling COVID-sick seniors back into nursing homes, only to be effectively buried by confirmation of 11 sexual harassment allegations by the state attorney general, a fellow Democrat who seems to be eyeing her own run for the governor’s mansion.
Cuomo’s problems are legal.
On the left coast, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is being judged for something far less titillating: pure political incompetence.
Newsom faces a recall election and a whopping 46 Republicans seek to replace him. Best known among them is a conservative author and media personality, Larry Elder.
Reason magazine recently noted that Newsom is in increasing trouble with the voters.
“Earlier polling had shown Newsom easily outlasting the recall effort, which was being pushed by Republicans in the heavily Democratic state. But a new poll by the University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Governmental Studies, co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, shows a big problem for him: Previously undecided voters are increasingly deciding to dump Newsom,” Reason noted.
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“What has changed is that undecided likely voters appear to be turning against the governor. The number of voters saying they’re inclined to vote in favor of the recall has jumped from 36 percent to 47 percent.”
The pollsters themselves report that right now the split among likely voters is 50-47 to retain Newsom.
Newsom is also in trouble because of apathy by his own side.
“While Republican voters are deeply invested in the recall, Democrats and independent voters are less so,” Reason noted.
“Only 58 percent of Democrats and 53 percent of independents poll as interested in the recall election, compared to 90 percent of Republicans. In other words, even though Democrats dramatically outnumber Republicans in California, if many Democrats are uninterested in the recall and don’t actually vote, Republicans might win the day.”
And Elder is stopping the heap on the GOP side, pulling 18 percent in a field with nearly 50 candidates.
Cuomo will be a major story for the next few days, because he’s at the center of the media universe and seemingly now outlived his usefulness to both the Democrats and the mainstream media. Despite his hardcore COVID stance, he’s boxed them in with a core constituency: the #MeToo crowd.
This means less attention will be paid to Newsom, who has about five weeks to reverse what could be a disastrous turn for Democrats in the most liberal state.
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