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The poll comes ahead of a Nov. 7 forum at UC Riverside where 11 philanthropic organizations, including the California Wellness Foundation, have invited gubernatorial candidates to discuss their healthcare priorities.

At the same time, concerns around increasing electric bills helped fuel Democratic victories last week in New Jersey’s gubernatorial election and down-ballot races in Virginia and Georgia.

Now that the special election is over, gubernatorial candidates can “rev up the public to pay attention,” DiCamillo said.

One can see that in the surprisingly robust victory margins of gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey, as well as the decisive margin of voter approval of California’s Proposition 50 redistricting ballot initiative.

Democratic gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia, where electricity prices were a campaign issue, signal the political importance of power costs.