GOP Misses an Opportunity in Senate Race
Hindsight is 20/20 but the Republicans sinking in acceptance before California’s electorate missed an opportunity by not fielding a better-known candidate in the U.S. Senate contest. Latest polling from the UC Berkeley IGS poll indicates that state senator Kevin de Leon could probably be kept out of the top two if Republican voters coalesced around […]
RFK
Fifty years ago, this week, while celebrating his victory in the hard-fought 1968 California Democratic Presidential primary, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. That tragedy was a seminal event in a tumultuous year; it was a year in which the political landscape was upended. Politics in California and […]
California Is Second Best
The world over, people long to finish first. But in California, it’s better to be second best. This is the larger truth at the center of the Golden State’s June 5 first-round elections for governor, a U.S. senator, and other statewide and legislative offices. Under our peculiar system, the top two finishers in each race […]
Governor Brown’s Likely Legacy and the Aftermath
Next year there is likely to be some jubilation in Republican as well as more than a few Democratic circles when Governor Jerry Brown, a wily tactician who will have held the top position twice for a history-making four terms finally exits the scene. How well his successor will fare whoever it is may not […]