By Daniel Dale Washington Bureau Chief Fri., Oct. 19, 2018 ORANGE COUNTY, CALIF.—Cindy Hopkins grimaces a little when she talks about the president she voted for. Hopkins is a Republican-leaning fiscal conservative, a corporate vice-president of human resources in one of California’s wealthiest cities. She likes what Donald Trump has done on the economy. But his personality pains and worries her, and she doesn’t know if she’d vote for him again. More importantly, she doesn’t know which party she’ll choose in the congressional midterms in November. “Being a human resources person, I would just handle things really differently,” Hopkins, 51, said last week at a mall in Mission Viejo, about an hour southeast of Los Angeles. “He’s doing some good things. But personally, as a mom to a son, his knee-jerk reactions and ego scare me. From a standpoint of: I don’t want my boy in war next year. And I feel like it could go there.” California is ignored in presidential elections, a sure Democratic win since 1992. In the 2018 election, it is a battleground that could decide who controls the House of Representatives — in part because Democrats there are exceptionally motivated, in part because Trump has caused some of the educated white women who usually vote Republican to waver. Article Continued Below “The Democrats are unified, a slice of Republicans are abandoning ship and crossing party lines, and independents are voting for Democrats by big margins,” said Ben Tulchin, a Democratic pollster in California. Democrats need… [Read full story]
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