Debate

As I watched the debate between Governors Newsom and Desantis there was something familiar. Desantis should have won that debate going away but it was considered a draw by many experts. Florida has a budget surplus of $17 billion and California a deficit of $22 billion. California has a state income tax of 13% and Florida has no state income tax. People are leaving California and moving to Florida and Newsom recently escaped a recall vote. So what happened. Newsom has that mysterious quality called charisma and he looks presidential. He is politically correct in his words and is a smooth speaker. If he had chosen a careen in sales he would have been successful. The whole debate was mindful of how personality can beat policy and that is what Trump vs Biden is all about. Something similar happened in the first televised debate between presidential candidates when the warm friendly Kennedy met the cold distant Nixon. How you look and what you say can be more important than what you do.