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| | Hank Stokes - The Valley Observer. Palm Springs Life Magazine |
 | | From Connecticut to the Coachella Valley, Nov. 7 will bring at least a brief national suspension of campaign posing, polling, and speech-ifying — but not, we hasten to note, of media punditry and pontification. |
 | | One of these, ironically, is right here: the 80th Assembly District, which currently consists of the West Valley linked to the East Valley by a strip running north of Interstate 10, plus all of rural, largely Latino Imperial County. |
 | | True, Democrats hold pluralities of reg-istered voters in three of the valley’s nine cities — heavily so in Coachella with its small voting base and by ratios of about 5 to 4 in Indio and Palm Springs. |
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