Being a watcher of political campaigns for a long while now, one of the things that I have noticed is consistency for politicians to have a bit of a pack mentality.
What do I mean.
Whenever you have a race and Candidate "X" takes a favorable stand on an issue, all the other candidate(s) tend to follow suit shortly thereafter.
Conversely, if Candidate "X" takes a position that does not resonate well with the voters, all of the other candidate(s) tend to drop that issue like a hot potato.
This campaign for governor is no exception.
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