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California, what a jungle!

There are hundreds of important elections this year -- for state legislature, governor, House and Senate. Legislative and gubernatorial races will decide which parties will draw new congressional district lines in 2020. House and Senate races will determine the future of health care, immigration, the Dreamers and climate change.

Yet the most important of them all is this year's battle for governor of California. First, because California, home to almost 40 million, is so powerful it's practically its own country, the

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