Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/California's 39th congressional district election, 2018
as a case of  and borderline . It being in the news even furthers this as a case of , and ignoring the slippery slope/ad populum which has been spun both ways, many of the sources are trivial mentions which just mention this particular district but do not go to any depth about it. The Washington Post link above from E.M. Gregory only says "In California’s 39th Congressional District, longtime Republican lawmaker Edward R. Royce recently announced his retirement; 17 candidates are running for his seat." and appends some statistics to this. The Denver Post article similarly only makes a trivial mention of this particular district, saying that "according to Kondik, the three likeliest places where that could happen are districts currently held by Republicans: the 39th, based in Fullerton, where Ed Royce is retiring; the 48th, in Orange County, now held by Dana Rohrabacher; and the 49th district in San Diego, where Darrell Issa is also retiring."  also applies since once summarized, the only substantial thing these sources are saying is "these districts, held by Republicans, might be won by the Democrats this autumn
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Stance: delete
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