California Enjoys Electoral Muscle
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Presidential candidates are making an early and furious run at voters in delegate-rich California.
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During the nineties, our state saw an increase in population, due to "The Californians" (who we like to bitch about) migrating to our low tax/low smog state.  Though most of us natives like to bitch about their supposedly shallow, urban sprawl, rude soccer mom, cell phone, and shopping mall ways, they have done something useful and actually turned us backwards hillbilly, gun toting, Republican loving rednecks into a swing state. Now we have to deal with traffic on I-25 being snarled for hours whenever Dick Cheney decides to send his motorcade through rush hour.  The most important issue on the ballot in our state is Amendment 36, which would change our electoral voting from "winner takes all" to a proportional voting system.
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Politics as usual? Hasta la vista, baby. The radical center has flexed its muscle in California, short-circuiting the parties and going directly to the people. Now it could sweep the nation. By Jill Stewart from Wired magazine.
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California, always a leader in fashion and fads, is poised to become a national political trendsetter as well in 2008.
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AH, CALIFORNIA. The land of warm sunshine. Plentiful beaches. Stunning scenery. Hollywood glitz.  Who wouldn't want to live there? Well, maybe not the inmates jammed into the Golden State's overcrowded prison system.
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won primaries in New York and New Jersey and captured the biggest prize of all, California, while Senator Barack Obama strung together nearly a dozen victories.
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California, the big prize in presidential politics, may be about to give up its eight-year quest for more clout in picking presidential nominees.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in California.
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Maine is a rare presidential battleground where the winner doesn't necessarily take all.
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Solar power is booming in California, the product of billions of dollars in investment and great enthusiasm.
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California has conceded defeat in its quest for more clout in picking presidential nominees and is returning to its traditional June primary election for all statewide races.
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A controversial California ballot measure that would fund a decade of stem cell research with $3 billion in state money was headed for a resounding victory on Tuesday, early returns showed.
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In a testament to the independent streak of Western voters, Washington and California are considering dumping political party primaries.
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California will vote on a broad campaign-finance measure that includes limits on corporate donors.
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Los Angeles Times - California has 53 seats in the House of Representatives, nearly twice as many as any other state, and every one is up for grabs in November &#8212; technically.
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California's battle for jobs gets down and dirty
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Senator John McCain racked up victories in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, but he appears to be locked in a tight battle with Mitt Romney for California.