Popular vote gets thumbs up in Calif.
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The California Legislature passed a bill that would give California's 55 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, rather than the candidate who captured the state &#151; but for now, the measure stands a slim chance of becoming reality.
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Improvements to voting machines and election administration saved a million votes that otherwise would likely have gone uncounted in the 2004 elections, with states and counties that made the most comprehensive upgrades recovering the most votes, a new academic analysis says.
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Enthusiastic voters showed up in record numbers for Saturday's Democratic and Republican presidential caucuses in Nevada.
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 8--Business confidence ticked upward in the latest Bay Area Council survey of top executives, as optimists outnumbered pessimists by nearly three to one in the region -- and by more than four to one in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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More people live in Los Angeles County than in the state of Michigan.
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SAN FRANCISCO A nonpartisan poll indicates Democrats are set for a big win in California next week. The Field Poll&#39;s survey of likely voters found John Kerry with a comfortable, seven-point lead over President Bush, 49-percent to 42-percent.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats and Republicans in California.
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The Christian Science Monitor - This week, California will be shining brightly in the 2008 presidential race.
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Bee Staff Writer. Californians are slowly growing more optimistic about the health of the economy, but a majority still feels the state is in bad economic times, according to a new Field Poll.
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A week after losing some support as the No. 1 team, Southern California got it right back. Top-ranked USC received 52 first-place votes, four more than last week, and 1,610 points in the Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday.
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Democratic challenger John Kerry  has a commanding lead over President Bush in California of 54  percent to 38 percent among likely voters, a poll released on  Tuesday found.
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It was a great day for Democrats - and cause for fighting words from Republicans. First the state Supreme Court ruled that King County, a stronghold for Democrat Christine
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Aiming to give California greater  say in U.S. presidential elections, the state's Senate voted  31-5 on Tuesday in favor of a bill that would move the state's  primary election to early February from June.
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By Craig Tenbroeck, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.
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The touch-screen voting machines used in 15 Florida counties appear to work smoothly during the state's primary election Tuesday.
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Bush won. Thatâs the bad news for stem cell researchers. The good news: California&#39;s Prop. 71 passed. The science is already seeing the election&#39;s fallout.
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California voters, wooed by an aggressive, multimillion dollar campaign that promised cures to myriad diseases, overwhelmingly approved the nation's most ambitious stem cell research center two years ago.