Earlier &#39;08 primary nets few gains for California Ã¢ÂÂ so far
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The Christian Science Monitor - This week, California will be shining brightly in the 2008 presidential race.
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Nate Longshore's return wasn't enough to get California back on the winning track. Having Patrick Cowan back did the trick for UCLA.
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Vote-by-mail ballots go out this week in the nation's most populous state, forcing presidential campaigns to consider using scarce dollars to lure early California voters while contests unfold in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in California.
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Rasmussen Reports - California&#39;s U.S. Senate race has tightened slightly, but not enough to furrow the brow of the Democratic incumbent. Easily absorbing a five-point decline in her lead since July, Senator Dianne Feinstein now leads former Republican state Senator Richard Mountjoy 56% to 34%.
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Rasmussen Reports - Arizona Senator John McCain&#39;s (R) support among Likely Republican Primary Voters has slipped to the lowest level ever recorded since Rasmussen Reports began tracking the race shortly after last November&#39;s election.
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California&#39;s economy will grow at a modest pace this year in an uneven recovery that will chip away at an unemployment rate projected to remain higher than the national average, according to a closely watched economic forecast
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Wins are pumping money into candidates' campaign funds. Yet money alone is not translating into victories.
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There were no surprises in congressional primaries held Tuesday in the state of Washington. In the Senate race, the stateÃ¢ÂÂs marquee contest this year, voters gave overwhelming victory margins to the major partiesÃ¢ÂÂ favored candidates: Democratic incumbent Maria Cantwell and Republican Mike McGavick, the former CEO of Seattle-based Safeco Insurance Corp.
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California's battle for jobs gets down and dirty
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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a 12 point lead over Barack Obama among Democrats likely to vote in California's February 5 primary, according to poll results released on Tuesday.
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So much for the quick victory the early primaries were expected to bring.
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It has been well-known for some time that the 2008 presidential campaign will be heavily Ã¢ÂÂfront-loaded.Ã¢ÂÂ A compressed schedule of primary and caucus elections, held earlier than ever in the presidential year, will culminate in events in upwards of 20 states next Feb. 5; that is fully nine months before the November general election.
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Support for Democratic  presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has fallen sharply  since the summer in California, the biggest prize of all the  primaries, although rivals have not yet benefited, a new poll  released on Wednesday found.
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Lost in the fuss over next week's Super Tuesday presidential contests is the fact that the 2008 congressional campaign also has its official kickoff that day, with primaries in Illinois. Not that this event is being greeted with enthusiasm by many Republicans, who appear desperate to hold the White House to counteract the near-certain extension of the majorities Democrats won in both the Senate and the House in 2006.
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ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana  - The primary elections have been called the most gripping in recent years but not in the Deep South state of Louisiana where parties struggled to motivate voters on Saturday.
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Hollywood is only marginally ahead of its lackluster 2005 in terms of dollars and cents. Studios are miles ahead in terms of summer hits and misses, though.