Experts Expound

The Experts Expound

"The governor spent a week traveling around the state pushing his budget reform plan, which includes automatic cuts when times get tight. Is this a good idea, and is his sales pitch working?"

Remember when the Pinto

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Experts Expound

How important is education as a political issue? Political pros say it polls at the top of voters’ concerns, but the governor’s office recently released a major, long-awaited study on education and it fell into a cone of silence.

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Experts Expound

Geraldine Ferraro, a Clinton loyalist, says Barack Obama and his surrogates label as racist those who dare to criticize Obama. True? False? Or somewhere in between?

Good thing these are anonymous answers — or we’d all be

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The Experts Expound

Is it time for everybody to learn about Puerto Rico's politics? With 63 winner-take-all Democratic delegates – more than Oklahoma, Connecticut and South Carolina – will Puerto Rico decide the Democratic presidential race on June 7?

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Experts Expound

Who wins on Tuesday in Texas and Ohio — Clinton or Obama? Or do we have a split decision?

Obama wins Texas. Clinton wins Ohio. Obama declares victory. Swift boats are launched from GOP shores. Despite the

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Experts Expound

Sen. Tom McClintock of Thousand Oaks, for two decades the Capitol’s best-known conservative, is considering running for John Doolittle’s Rocklin congressional seat. Will he win, or will he be rejected as a carpetbagger?

If he runs, he

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Experts Expound

Who’s the next speaker of the Assembly? Why?

Curt Pringle. He’s tanned, he’s rested, he’s ready.

In an ideal world, it would be Karen Bass. She’s smart, does her homework and has paid her dues.

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Experts Expound

Who really won? What happens now?

We all won! Young people are fired up to vote. Turnout was the highest in decades, and California is once again a player in the presidential race.

Democrats! Record

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Experts Expound

This time it’s not “Who killed J.R?” but “What killed health care?” What happens now?

If you have to run for re-election every two years, it makes it difficult to make the big decisions and take the

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Experts Expound

In California, there were more than 31,000 home foreclosures, a record, during the last quarter of 2007. Is California on the verge of a recession, or are we there already? What can our state government do about it?

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