MORE ON: 2012 presidential election

Americans Elect – the innovative effort to jolt the political system with a third-party presidential candidate – is facing a democratic uprising of its own. A hastily organized contingent of Americans Elect activists is agitating to reverse the group's decision last week to... + read more

The Golden State’s primary is two months off, but California Republicans already have pumped more than $26.6 million into the prolonged fight for the GOP presidential nomination. That includes $15.2 million in direct donations to front-runner Mitt Romney; challengers Rick Santorum, Newt... + read more

With more than eight months to go before Election Day, California bundlers already might have rounded up more money for President Barack Obama's re-election bid than they did during the entire 2008 campaign, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Voluntary... + read more

If super political action committee dollars were votes in the Republican presidential primary, California would already have voted resoundingly for Mitt Romney. Restore Our Future, the super PAC supporting the former Massachusetts governor, collected $2.3 million from Californians last year,... + read more

The news this week that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is all but certain to enter the Republican presidential field has no doubt come as welcome news to some conservative Californians. After all, it was a Californian – state Assemblyman Dan Logue, R-Chico – who made headlines earlier this... + read more