Meg Whitman greets volunteers Carol Hunt, center, and Priscilla Regur, right, at her campaign office in Woodland Hills. She dismissed polls and pundits showing her trailing in the governor’s race. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Jerry Brown appears on the steps of the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, one of his four campaign stops around the state. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Carly Fiorina speaks to the mother of John Merguerian, left, a volunteer in the GOP campaign in Pasadena. Merguerian’s mother had been undecided in the Senate race. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Sen. Barbara Boxer claps and revs up the crowd at a joint Democratic rally at the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, campaigning for lieutenant governor, appeared with fellow Democratic candidates in L.A. on Monday. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Lieutenant governor candidate Abel Maldonado attends an event held by his opponent, Gavin Newsom. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
San Francisco Dist. Atty. Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for state attorney general, campaigns in Los Angeles. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, the Republican candidate for state attorney general, announces the indictment of eight current and former Bell city officials. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
