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Poll: John Cox closes in on Gavin Newsom, Kevin de León gaining on Dianne Feinstein
SFGATE ^ | Thursday, September 6, 2018 | ERIC TING

Posted on 09/07/2018 10:02:52 AM PDT by onyx

According to a new poll, California's two biggest statewide races in 2018 are tightening, as the leads for front-runners Gavin Newsom and Dianne Feinstein have been cut to single digits.

The poll, conducted by Probolsky Research between Aug. 29 and Sept. 2, found that Lt. Gov. Newsom leads Republican businessman John Cox 44 percent to 39, with 17 percent of the poll's participants saying that they are undecided.

Additionally, the poll found that Sen. Feinstein leads progressive challenger Kevin de León 37 percent to 29, with a whopping 34 percent of participants undecided.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2018midterms; 2018polls; 2020election; ca2018; cagovernor; california; cox; deleon; diannefeinstein; election2018; election2020; ericting; feinstein; gavinnewsom; johncox; kevindeleon; newsom; newsome; poll; polling; richardcblum; sanfrancisco
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

No- He is Democrat


41 posted on 09/08/2018 7:57:45 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: cartoonistx

One reason I’m voting Cox and Feinstein in November. At 85 or whatever, I don’t really expect her to last the next 6 years, and de Leon makes Harris look like a “Moderate” Democrat, and a bloody genius as well.


42 posted on 09/08/2018 8:01:33 AM PDT by ssaftler (It's not the "deep state". It's the "odoriferous oligarchy")
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To: Impy; onyx; campaignPete R-CT

Not only will Feinstein vote conservative 5% of the time versus 0% for De León, the reasons why I would crawl over broken grass to vote for Feinstein over De León in the run-off to the (unconstitutional) jungle primary is that she’s 85 years old (34 years older than De León), making it almost certain that this would be her final Senate term (thus giving the GOP the chance to win an open-seat race in 2024) and rather likely that she will kick the bucket before then (which would give the GOP the chance to take the seat in a special election). Moreover, De León’s age and profile makes him a potential future presidential candidate if he wins the Senate election, while such ship already sailed for Feinstein long ago.


43 posted on 09/08/2018 9:04:10 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

That makes sense.


44 posted on 09/08/2018 9:05:19 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican
Not only will Feinstein vote conservative 5% of the time versus 0% for De León, the reasons why I would crawl over broken grass to vote for Feinstein over De León in the run-off to the (unconstitutional) jungle primary is that she’s 85 years old (34 years older than De León), making it almost certain that this would be her final Senate term (thus giving the GOP the chance to win an open-seat race in 2024) and rather likely that she will kick the bucket before then (which would give the GOP the chance to take the seat in a special election). Moreover, De León’s age and profile makes him a potential future presidential candidate if he wins the Senate election, while such ship already sailed for Feinstein long ago.

Much of this post sounds like the reasoning for voting for Loretta Sanchez over Kamala Harris two years ago (the main exception is any talk about a candidate's advanced age). I wonder if this type of thinking will be readily used in future general elections in California, though I hope for better choices.

45 posted on 09/09/2018 8:20:17 AM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude orhttp mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: hsmomx3

Feinstein is being harmed because she’s not crazy enough for the left base today.

Honestly did you ever think Fienstien would be to right wing for the democrats??


46 posted on 09/09/2018 8:29:23 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

No but to the crazy voters they want some fresh blood in there.


47 posted on 09/09/2018 8:42:10 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Lonely Bull

Yeah, it wasn’t that Loretta Sanchez was too old to go on to seek higher office had she been elected to the U.S. Senate, it was just that she didn’t have the profile or résumé to do so, whereas Kamala Harris did.

Hopefully California conservatives that didn’t vote for Loretta Sanchez (as terrible as she is) over Kamala Harris in the run-off have learned their lesson and will vote for Feinstein over De León.


48 posted on 09/09/2018 10:18:27 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: onyx

Both seats in play in an honest election. Heck, an “honest”, as in no illegals voting, election probably restores the GOP in a landslide.


49 posted on 09/09/2018 10:24:54 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: onyx

To my
Mind, demLeon comes out of the closet as a democratic socialist the day after he’s elected, thus giving
Impetus to the movement. That’s enough for me to vote for the old hag


50 posted on 09/09/2018 11:25:16 AM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 1,500 posts as of 8/10/18. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; Lonely Bull; onyx

Difi is likely costing herself GOP votes with this ridiculous Kavanaugh stunt. There’s a lot of potential for GOP voters who don’t know who DeLeon is to just vote against her.


51 posted on 09/15/2018 1:47:22 AM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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