strategists. i think it was not entirely unjustified. the polls showed newsom was going to win the recall effort most likely but there was a healthy dose of historically based apprehension in the air because of what happened the last time we had a first term democratic president in office. i was there. i covered it. you probably remember it too. in barack obama s first year in office we saw two seismic elections that harkened as warning signs of what was to come in american politics. both of them were sort of the precursor or part of the tea party movement, the right wing swing of the electorate that led to the 2010 mid terms, redistricting and backlash politics that went on to shape the current republican party. the first of the big bombshell elections was in the very blue state of new jersey. barack obama won that state by more than 15 points. the very next year, 10 months into the obama election,
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