Reporters love a race with a tidy narrative. You can take your pick of tales and tropes: There’s the old guard and the new face (Cuomo-Mamdani), the bomb thrower and the problem solver (Crockett-Talarico), or the Trump loyalist and the principled conservative (Paxton-Cornyn). Without the structure of a narrative, we’re a bit lost—which is probably why nobody was paying much attention to the gubernatorial race out here in California. That is, up until this weekend, when suddenly everyone’s heads