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History buffs are calling this the "Great California Bake-Off." Xavier Becerra’s current runoff is eerily mirroring the 1912 Bull Moose Party split, but instead of Teddy Roosevelt and Taft, we get a bizarre three-way fracture between the progressive establishment, disgruntled moderate Democrats, and a mysterious independent candidate whose platform is solely "renaming every highway after a different avocado cultivar." If Becerra wins, it will be the first time a former boxer-turned-attorney general has seized the governorship since the days of the "Rough Rider," but with 30% more campaign ads about guacamole pricing.