Super Tuesday: California

Pechanga Tribal Council members celebrate as the Indian gaming proposals pass during an election night party at the Pechanga Casino in Temecula.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Pechanga tribe members celeberate the success of the Indian gaming proposals at an election night party at the Pechanga Casino in Temecula.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Pechanga Indians Chairman Mark Macarro speaks at a rally at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday night. In the background is Robert Martin, chairman of the Morongo Indians.  (Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times)

Tumaini Coker cheers for Sen. Barack Obama as his speech from Chicago is shown at a primary night watch at the Avalon in Hollywood.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Tomiko Estelle, 29, walks out of her polling place at the Watts Towers Arts Center after casting her ballot for Hillary Rodham Clinton.  (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver sign in with poll worker Barbara Levin before casting their votes at Kenter Canyon Charter Elementary School.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Ragazzo waits for his owner Susan Benner to vote at the Laguna Beach Lawn Bowling Club.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Bartender Lacey Murillo pours a beer from the John McCain tap at Barney’s Beanery in Pasadena. The bar offered a special on beers that had the candidates faces on the spigots. Bartenders then tallied up the count as patrons chose the draft beer labeled with their favorite candidate’s picture in their unofficial Super Tuesday Countdown Beer Vote.  (Karen Tapia-Andersen / Los Angeles Times)

Michael Walker looks over his ballot one last time before leaving the polling place at the Watts Towers Arts Center.  (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

A passenger shows his support for Obama in East Los Angeles.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

A row of signs in Newport Beach sums up the choice facing voters. Measure B includes a provision to build a new City Hall on a piece of land that was slated to become a park.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Venice residents Linda and Daniel Brookman place their votes in surf style at the Los Angeles County Fire Department Lifeguard Operations building.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

An American flag is reflected in a window at a Montebello furniture store as Anthony Bedoy, 17, a poll worker from Montebello High School, watches voters cast their ballots.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Inglewood resident Rainer Quesada casts his ballot at City of Bicycles on La Brea Avenue.  (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Bertha Hernandez casts her ballot at B&H Towing in Inglewood while granddaughter Natalie Arciniega, 3, surveys the room.  (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

A voter casts her ballot at a coin-operated laundry in San Francisco.  (Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times)

Owen Heske is either older than he looks or is wearing a pin given to his mom, Suzanne, at a polling station in San Francisco.  (Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times)

A voter fills out a ballot as a firetruck pulls out of a station in Hayward, Calif.  (Ben Margot / Associated Press)

Jennifer Sawyer, left, and Gil Liebrecht vote at the mausoleum of the Neptune Society Columbarium in San Francisco.  (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press)