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Strongly Favors topic 1:
Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right
(+5 points on Social scale)
Opposes defunding Planned Parenthood: Strongly Favors topic 1
Welcome women to CA from states without abortion: Strongly Favors topic 1
Provide full reproductive services in jails and prisons: Strongly Favors topic 1
Repeal law requiring coroners to investigate stillbirths: Strongly Favors topic 1
Passed some of the strongest laws protecting women's health: Strongly Favors topic 1
Favors topic 2:
Legally require hiring women & minorities
(-3 points on Economic scale)
Supports affirmative action: Strongly Favors topic 2
Shift from group preferences to economic empowerment of all: Neutral on topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3:
Support transgender and LGBTQ+ rights
(+5 points on Social scale)
Early supporter for gay marriage: Strongly Favors topic 3
Took initiative in issuing of same sex marriage licenses: Strongly Favors topic 3
2004: Performed same-sex marriage despite state ban: Strongly Favors topic 3
Strongly Opposes topic 4:
America was founded on Christian values
(+5 points on Social scale)
Strict separation of church and state: Strongly Opposes topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 5:
Expand ObamaCare
(-5 points on Economic scale)
Supports HealthySF: available to all uninsured residents: Strongly Favors topic 5
We will lead a massive expansion of health care: Strongly Favors topic 5
CalAIM: physical health & mental health inextricably linked: Favors topic 5
COVID: Science--not politics--drove our decisions: Favors topic 5
State employees to get vaccinated or regular testing: Strongly Favors topic 5
First state to offer universal access to healthcare: Strongly Favors topic 5
Proposed Health For All, regardless of immigration status: Strongly Favors topic 5
Expanded health care to millions of uninsured Californians: Strongly Favors topic 5
Public option is not the right thing: Strongly Opposes topic 5
Establish "report cards" on HMO quality of care: Favors topic 5
Favors topic 6:
Privatize Social Security
(+2 points on Economic scale)
Create Retirement Savings Accounts: Favors topic 6
Opposes topic 7:
Vouchers for school choice
(-3 points on Economic scale)
Offer every parent Charter Schools and public school choice: Opposes topic 7
Strongly Opposes topic 8:
Businesses have a right to pollute
(+5 points on Social scale)
Pro-active on energy and resource management: Strongly Opposes topic 8
The water we drink & the air we breathe hang in the balance: Opposes topic 8
Radically ramp up forest management efforts: Strongly Opposes topic 8
Strongly Opposes topic 9:
Stricter punishment reduces crime
(+5 points on Social scale)
Criminal justice reform is crucial; repeal death penalty: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Death penalty is ineffective, irreversible and immoral: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Moratorium on the California death penalty: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Spared 737 people on California's death row: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Moratorium on death penalty; disassembled death chamber: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Bolster police, more prosecutors, get guns off the street: Favors topic 9
Cut administrative fees on people in criminal justice system: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Strongly Opposes topic 10:
Absolute right to gun ownership
(-5 points on Economic scale)
Supports background checks: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Allow suits against gun makers for negligence: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Lift statutory cap on concealed carry license fee: Strongly Opposes topic 10
California's gun homicide rate 33% below national average: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Prevent unauthorized firearm use with "smart gun" technology: Opposes topic 10
Strongly Favors topic 11:
Higher taxes on the wealthy
(-5 points on Economic scale)
Supports tax hikes for public good: Strongly Favors topic 11
Texas is a high-tax state for the poor; California is not: Strongly Favors topic 11
Favors topic 12:
Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens
(+2 points on Social scale)
Sanctuary cities build trust: Strongly Favors topic 12
Border wall is just rhetoric; celebrate diversity: Strongly Opposes topic 12
There is no border crisis; the wall is just xenophobia: Favors topic 12
National Guard for crime on border, not immigration: Favors topic 12
Prevent ICE from claiming to be checking on probation: Favors topic 12
Favors topic 13:
Support & expand free trade
(+2 points on Economic scale)
Build a rule-based global trading system: Favors topic 13
Strongly Favors topic 14:
Stay away from the UN & Globalism
(+5 points on Economic scale)
Californians are VIPs of GDP: 1 in 7 new jobs since 2010: Favors topic 14
There's only one state with a dream: the California Dream: Strongly Favors topic 14
Strongly Opposes topic 15:
Peace through Strength
(+5 points on Social scale)
Don't gut programs to pay for military buildup: Strongly Opposes topic 15
Strongly Favors topic 16:
Make voter registration easier
(+5 points on Social scale)
Campaigned to boost student registration: Strongly Favors topic 16
COVID: all registered voters receive mail-in ballots: Strongly Favors topic 16
Favors topic 17:
Stay out of foreign wars
(+2 points on Social scale)
Progressive Internationalism: globalize with US pre-eminence: Favors topic 17
Strongly Favors topic 18:
Prioritize green energy
(-5 points on Economic scale)
California leads the way on green energy: Strongly Favors topic 18
New cars & trucks in California to be zero-emission by 2035: Strongly Favors topic 18
We will write the playbook on confronting climate change: Strongly Favors topic 18
We need to be fighting polluters, not bolstering them: Strongly Favors topic 18
A clean future isn't only desirable, it's achievable: Strongly Favors topic 18
Supports tradable emissions permits for greenhouse gases: Favors topic 18
Strongly Opposes topic 19:
Marijuana is a gateway drug
(+5 points on Social scale)
Pushed Proposition 64, legalizing adult use of marijuana: Strongly Opposes topic 19
I'm not pro-pot, but anti-prohibition; opposed 2010 Prop 19: Opposes topic 19
Let California legalization continue: Strongly Opposes topic 19
Supports recreational marijuana but no black market: Opposes topic 19
Strongly Favors topic 20:
Stimulus better than market-led recovery
(-5 points on Economic scale)
Government has role in economic growth: Strongly Favors topic 20
Opportunity zones worthy of bipartisan support: Favors topic 20
$2.6 billion in grants to small businesses & nonprofits: Strongly Favors topic 20
Invest more in fighting wildfires, tackling historic drought: Strongly Favors topic 20
Homelessness must be at the top of our agenda: Strongly Favors topic 20
Nearly $2 billion to create more homeless housing: Strongly Favors topic 20
Address homelessness with 55,000 new housing units: Strongly Favors topic 20

Gavin Newsom is a Libertarian-Leaning Progressive
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Gubernatorial races 2025:
New Jersey Governor:
Virginia Governor:
    Democratic primary June 17 cancelled:
  • Abigail Spanberger, U.S.Rep., VA-7 (2019-2024); Dem. nominee 2025
  • Levar Stoney, VA Secretary of the Commonwealth (2014-2016); (withdrew to run for Lt. Gov.)

    Republican primary June 17 cancelled:
  • Winsome Earle-Sears, Lt. Gov. since 2022; GOP nominee 2025
  • Amanda Chase, State Senate District 11 (2016-2023); failed to make ballot
  • Denver Riggleman, U.S.Rep. (R-VA-5); exploratory committee as Independent
  • Glenn Youngkin, Incumbent Governor , (2022-2025), term-limited
Mayoral races 2025:
NYC Mayor Democratic primary June 24, 2025:
  • Adrienne Adams, speaker of the City Council
  • Andrew Cuomo, former governor of New York, 2011-2021.
    Republican June 24 primary cancelled; general election Nov. 4:
  • Eric Adams, incumbent Democratic mayor running as an independent
  • Jim Walden, Independent; Former assistant U.S. Attorney
  • Curtis Sliwa, Republican; CEO of the Guardian Angels

Jersey City Mayor (Non-partisan)
    Non-partisan general election Nov. 4:
  • Mussab Ali, former president of the Jersey City Board of Education
  • Bill O'Dea, Hudson County commissioner (since 1997)
  • Jim McGreevey, former N.J. Governor (2002-2004)
  • James Solomon, city councilor (since 2017)
  • Joyce Watterman, president of the Jersey City Council (since 2023)

Oakland CA Mayor
    Non-partisan special election April 14, 2025:
  • Barbara Lee, U.S.Rep CA-12 (1998-2025)
  • Loren Taylor, Oakland City Council (2019-2023), lost general election
  • Sheng Thao, Oakland Mayor, lost recall election Nov. 5, 2024
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Infrastructure/Technology
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