Um, I’m pretty sure there couldn’t be a clearer indicator of which candidate will do those things than those terms. Conservatives have no interest in helping anyone to whom a measly utility bill would pose any financial difficulty. Conservatives don’t work for those people. As for college tuition, conservatives have worked tirelessly to ensure that only those able to pay can go to college, and to wastefully retain wasteful middlemen like Sallie Mae instead of allowing the government to directly lend to students. We know how conservatives feel about increasing access to health care: “DEATH PANELS HITTLER!!!” This essay is so dumb. There’s no such thing as post-partisanship or common ground at a time when America is more polarized than at any time since the Civil War. The best Democratic nominee for Governor isn’t the one who will work best with Republicans, but the one who will have the longest coattails to help take back the state Senate for the Democrats and enact progressive policy in the state over the objections of Republicans. This attempt by Knox to try to muddy the ideological waters does nothing to help him in the Democratic primary.