California voters still don’t like how Democrats are running the state

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Democrats are seemingly on their way to yet another round of victories in California’s elections, and yet polls continue to show that California voters disapprove of the state’s direction. At what point does the electoral dam finally break?

A poll by David Wolfson, commissioned by GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, shows Hilton trailing Democratic candidate, former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, by less than 6 points. This comes with the obvious caveats: Nearly three-fourths of the 14% of voters who are undecided would choose Becerra if push came to shove, and the poll is an outlier compared to the polling average, which has Becerra consistently leading by double digits.

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