MORE ON: Election 2010

Not all of the victors and the vanquished from California’s state election Tuesday were apparent from scanning the returns. Here are California Watch’s nominees for some other election winners (W) and losers (L): “Queen Meg” and the unions (W): The California Nurses... + read more

The U.S. Department of Justice will be sending sending poll watchers to Alameda and Riverside counties today to ensure California's long-awaited Election Day goes smoothly – a routine move in a decidedly not-routine election year already replete with allegations of voter fraud. Voter... + read more

Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman are in a dead heat in the governor’s race, but 18 percent of voters are still undecided a month before the election, a new Public Policy Institute of California survey says. The survey, released last night, was completed before Tuesday’s first... + read more

Two of the worst toxic polluters in the state are also the two largest contributors of the campaign for Proposition 23, the ballot initiative that would stall the state’s landmark climate legislation. Valero Energy Corporation and Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, two Texas refining... + read more

By now, we all know Meg Whitman has spent enough on her gubernatorial campaign to run some small countries – $99 million and counting – while Jerry Brown, playing the pauper, has spent a little more on his entire campaign than Whitman has spent on postage (yes, really). But... + read more

Gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have both repudiated partisan politics and attacks made against their campaigns. But despite their concern about partisan attacks, Politics Verbatim has documented hundreds of attacks the two candidates have made since the beginning of the... + read more