As a Californian, we need to study what worked in Michigan and start applying it to CA. Everyone thinks that CA is unwinnable for the GOP, but if Michigan can go GOP, there is hope.
Kind of a mixed bag really. We had to elect a “republican” version of Jenny Granholm to do it.
There are parallels — both states had foreign-born governors who will hit their term limits; both states have voted mostly blue for a long while; both states have economies which are on the skids; and (although this isn’t generally known) both states have a considerable Latino population that is partly non-US-citizen.