Conventional wisdom says Darrell Steinberg will cruise to an easy victory in Sacramento’s mayoral election this June. He is sitting on a $1.4 million war chest from his days as a state legislator. He has name recognition, having been a popular fixture in Sacramento politics for more than 20 years. And he is taking nothing for granted, working tirelessly to become Sacramento’s mayor, though the former leader of the state Senate has the chops to chase much bigger jobs. But hold on a second. This week, Sacramento became a microcosm for political lessons playing out in the presidential primaries. Chief among them is that conventional wisdom is often uninformed talk. Those who underestimate...
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