Commentary: The candidates for California governor are a mystery. What voters want is not

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : (The retired insurance underwriter, just returned from the car wash, was buffing a few water spots off his black Tesla and had this to say about the company's CEO: "If he wasn't Elon Musk, he would be in some institution, probably sharing a wing with Trump.")
47% : "I consider myself to be lucky," Castillo said, "because if I wasn't sleeping in the car I'd either be on the street or in a cardboard box." Hanging over every conversation -- like the big, puffy clouds above, but much less enchanting -- was President Trump.
43% : Ray Charan, 39, a Sacramento Democrat who works for the state in information technology, said, like it or not, Trump is president, "so you have to come to some sort of professional arrangement.
39% : "Anybody who has a platform should be speaking out," fighting Trump in the courts and resisting any way possible, said Eunice Kim, 42, a Sacramento physician and professed liberal, who paused outside the library in El Dorado Hills as her boys, 5 and 8, roughhoused on the front lawn.
31% : The Rancho Cordova Republican voted for Trump and cited a litany of ills plaguing the state, among them high gas prices and the steep cost of living.
26% : "If you want federal funding, if you want progress, you have to work with those who are on a different side of the table, especially when they're as aggressive as Trump is.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.