Marc Cooper : Democratic Party
The limp grassroots response to Democratic gubernatorial
candidates reveals that the plummeting popularity of one party doesn't
automatically translate into support for the other.
Bruce Shapiro : Anti-Death Penalty Movement
The refusal of the California governor, who built his fame feeding adolescent fantasies of killing, to grant clemency to a former gang leader who tried to dissuade kids from violence only adds to the widening discomfort over the death penalty in America.
Robert Scheer : Electoral Politics
The lesson of the defeat in California of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's referendum revolution is this: The American people will not forever be fooled. The negative message of the Republican right has lost its power to terrorize voters.
Once seen as the vehicle of hope and reform, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger looks increasingly like an oil-burning jalopy of politics-as-usual.
The California governor's campaign to pass a series of ballot initiatives is off to a rocky start.
Arnold Schwarzenegger now holds a markedly weakened hand.
Shane Paul Goldmacher : Education Policy & Reform
The Governor is setting two dangerous precedents for education in California.
The biggest winner in Tuesday's polling was arguably Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Scripted campaign over, Arnold now aims to balance budget on backs of those who can least afford it
California's opportunist attorney general looks past the allegations against Schwarzenegger.
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