By CARLA MARINUCCI, San Francisco Chronicle

Whitman on San Francisco GOP voter rolls in 1980s, paper says

SAN FRANCISCO - Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman was registered as a Republican voter in San Francisco from 1982 to 1985, city records show, contrary to a report last month that there was no evidence of her registration when she lived in the city in the 1980s.

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Carly Fiorina has spotty voting record

Republican Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, took her first formal step Tuesday to challenge incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer -- but does she pass the Citizenship 101 test?

Critics suggest maybe not, considering that Fiorina, 54, who has a spotty California voting record, never cast a ballot in two other states where she lived, according to public records.

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Backers of legal marijuana eye California ballot

With polls showing the legalization of marijuana gaining public support, and a state budget crisis fueling an ever-more-desperate search for revenue, backers of the first major statewide initiative to legalize marijuana for personal use -- and allow counties to tax and regulate the drug -- say they're preparing to get the matter on the November 2010 ballot.

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Across nation, states debating same-sex marriage

In the aftermath of the California Supreme Court ruling upholding a ban on future same-sex marriages, other states are wrestling with the issue.
Five states -- Massachusetts, Iowa, Vermont, Connecticut and Maine -- have approved same-sex marriage. And at least three others, New York, New Jersey and New Hampshire, are seriously considering the matter.

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California Gov. Schwarzenegger's vaunted salesmanship tested

In the wildly diverse worlds of bodybuilding, movies and politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger has consistently marshaled one critical skill -- an uncanny knack for salesmanship -- to catapult him to the top of his class.

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California governor's race may be tale of three cities

When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom visited Los Angeles Tuesday for a town hall session with voters, his campaign dramatized a strategic -- and tantalizing -- theme in the 2010 Democratic race for governor.

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California governor's race may be tale of three cities

When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom visited Los Angeles Tuesday for a town hall session with voters, his campaign dramatized a strategic -- and tantalizing -- theme in the 2010 Democratic race for governor.

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End of Bush era unlikely to be mourned by many in Calif.

President Bush once remarked at a White House party that in the famously liberal enclave of San Francisco, his supporters were so rare that "you could probably fit them all in one room."

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Early signs are Obama has to guard his left

SAN FRANCISCO -- As he prepares to enter the ring of White House politics, President-elect Barack Obama might need to perfect that left jab just as much as his right hook.

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Debate among women about Palin just hitting its stride

In a presidential race in which unexpected factors like lipsticks and pigs have driven questions about sexism and feminism, a central question remains: What do women want?This is especially true now that Alaska's Republican Gov. Sarah Palin, a self-described hockey mom, is a major player in the race -- and is shaping its coverage and its issues in surprising ways.

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