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Poll: Walker leads as Wisconsin recall election nears
MILWAUKEE— Just ahead of Tuesday’s recall election, a new Marquette University Law School poll shows Republican Gov. Scott Walker holding a 52%-to-45% lead over Democratic challenger Tom Barrett among likely Wisconsin voters. The survey,...
Tags: Republican Party, Polls, Politics, Tom Barrett, Career and Workplace
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California voters still support Jerry Brown's call for tax hikes
SACRAMENTO — California voters continue to back Gov. Jerry Brown in his call for higher taxes, but distrust of state government could erode that support, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll. About half of those surveyed said they...
Tags: Polls, Politics, Justice System, Health, Budgets and Budgeting
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Michael Dukakis, Prof. Politics
The man who made his political bones handling Boston's blizzard of 1978 has spent the last 17 winters in the sunshine glow of UCLA. Michael Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor and the 1988 Democratic presidential candidate for president, is a...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Elections, Media Industry, Civil and Public Service, Olympia J. Snowe
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Ted Cruz and the tea party vying for Texas Senate seat
Tea partyers riding high off of their successful efforts to further shake up the Republican establishment in Nebraska and Indiana have turned their eyes to Texas, where challenger Ted Cruz has a chance to at least force another vote in the hunt for the...
Tags: Republican Party, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Politics, Federal Election Commission
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Analysis: Still no good news for Republicans in California
For years, even as despondency deepened in some of its quarters, the Republican Party in California has argued that its message really isn’t the problem. Depending on the year, blame has been laid on the messengers — nominees not telegenically...
Tags: Republican Party, Dianne Feinstein, Abortion, U.S. Presidential Election Exit Polls (2008), Jerry Brown
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Park closures just don't pencil out
SACRAMENTO — For most people, Memorial Day kicks off the vacation season. For Gov. Jerry Brown, however, it is the time to start closing state parks. That's right. Shut off the water, cart off the privies, lock the gates. Summer's around the...
Tags: Memorial Day, Politics, State Parks, Natural Resources, Environmental Issues
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California is a Romney home state too
LA JOLLA — David and Cristina Sear were walking their Doberman pinschers in this seaside neighborhood when a big U-Haul truck pulled up around the corner from the $12-million beachfront home Mitt and Ann Romney had just bought. The driver could not...
Tags: Personal Service, Ann Romney, Services and Shopping, Cliff Robertson, John Miller
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For Romney, beating Obama on education could be tricky
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Herman Cain had 9-9-9. Lately, Mitt Romney is all about E-E-E. As in, the economy, energy and -- new this week -- education. Romney rolled out his education plan at a speech in Washington last week, and followed up with a visit to a charter school in...Tags: Republican Party, Education, Politics, Illinois Governor, David Brooks
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'Tax the rich' is the opposite of reform
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown defends his soak-the-rich tax proposal as just. And besides, he says, it's popular with the non-rich. Never mind that it's the opposite of reform, that it would make California's roller-coaster tax system even more...
Tags: State Income Tax, Republican Party, Politics, Income Tax, Voting
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'Tax the rich' the opposite of reform
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown defends his soak-the-rich tax proposal as just. And besides, he says, it's popular with the non-rich. Never mind that it's the opposite of reform, that it would make California's roller-coaster tax system even more...Tags: State Income Tax, Republican Party, Politics, Income Tax, Voting
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Study shows isolation may lead to corrupt state capitals
What makes some state capitals so much more corrupt than others? New research provides a partial answer to that long-standing question: isolated capitals breed more corruption and lack of news coverage is a major reason why. State capitals have long...
Tags: Politics, Prosecution, Political Corruption, Science and Technology, Newspaper and Magazine
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Gov. Jerry Brown seeks to cap wildfire liabilities in California
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown wants to limit the amount of money government agencies can recoup for battling wildfires and restoring damaged public lands. The proposal would prevent agencies from seeking payouts several times larger than the...
Tags: Lawyers, Politics, Laws, Companies and Corporations, Agricultural Research and Technology
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