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By DAN WALTERS
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
The two major parties and special interest groups spent many millions of dollars in one state Senate district this year and the net result was a virtual tie.

Republican Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher eked out a 13-vote victory over Democrat Lou Correa in Orange County's 34th Senate District on Election Day, with hundreds of absentee votes still to be counted, and by Thursday, her margin had climbed to 138 votes.

Regardless of who winds up with the seat, it's a fairly meaningless contest.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
An ebullient Arnold Schwarzenegger, after being re-elected governor in a landslide Tuesday night, proclaimed, "I love doing sequels." It's good that he also loves challenges.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
To fully understand Tuesday's Democratic victory, look no further than California's 11th Congressional District.

It was there that Jerry McNerney, an obscure Democratic candidate with almost no political experience, toppled Rep.

By DEB KOLLARS AND MATT WEISER
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
The levee system crisscrossing Sacramento and the Central Valley received the biggest financial boost in its long and rickety history when California voters said yes to a $4.1 billion bond measure to strengthen flood control.

The huge infusion of cash should go a long way toward providing more safety to people living behind levees, including residents of Natomas, West Sacramento, the Greenhaven-Pocket neighborhood and other areas of the Sacramento region.

And it is expected to bring a greater level of security to the levee system running through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, where the potential combination of an earthquake and crumbling levees could threaten the water supply of millions of Californians.

Known as Proposition 1E, the measure was approved Tuesday by 64 percent of voters statewide.

By RACHEL GORDON and GREG LUCAS
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Jerry McNerney, the Democratic mathematician-turned-political conqueror who defied odds-makers and defeated seven-term California GOP Rep.

By PATRICK HOGE
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Proponents of Proposition 90, an eminent domain reform initiative that California voters narrowly rejected Tuesday, plan to try again with a similar measure, possibly in June 2008.

By KEVIN YAMAMURA
Monday, November 13, 2006
As he kicked off a two-day trade mission Thursday in Mexico, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger praised Tuesday's congressional results despite the fact that his own party lost control of both houses for the first time in 12 years.

"Now when you talk about the election on a national level, I think this is good that we have new blood coming to Washington, that we have new people and new ideas coming to Washington," Schwarzenegger said.

By TOM CHORNEAU
Monday, November 13, 2006
In an election marked by Democratic victories across the country, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's landslide re-election was the big exception, but his coattails were not long enough to erode the power hold that Democrats have in Sacramento.

By DANIEL WEINTRAUB
Monday, November 13, 2006
Whatever pitched partisan battles might be looming in Washington, D.C., Tuesday's election was a victory for collaboration over confrontation in California, as the state voted overwhelmingly to give a second term to a celebrity chief executive who has redefined what it means to govern from the center.

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By ANDY FURILLO
Friday, November 10, 2006
Sacramento politicians basked Wednesday in the success of the $37.3 billion infrastructure bond package that they said reverberated a simple message from the voters: give us some more of that bipartisanship stuff.

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