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One hundred seats in the California Assembly and Senate were up for grabs on Nov. 7. Not a single one changed party hands. Conceivably, you might think, there'd be one seat that would switch from a Democrat to a Republican, or visa versa. But no. Nada. Not a single seat. The same inertia was seen in the 2004 elections. No seats changed party hands. Until last week, there was a faint chance that Republican Lynn Dauscher would buck the trend and defeat Democrat Lou Correa in the 34th Senate District, a seat vacated by a termed-out Democrat. But Correa's lead...

As a conservative, I'm rooting for the re-emergence of Gov. Schwarzenegger circa 2005, who pledged to "blow up the boxes," eliminate the structural deficit and rein in the powerful government unions. Shawn Steel, a Rolling Hills resident, is chairman of the California Club for Growth and former chairman of the California Republican Party. "What will Arnold do now?" That is usually a rhetorical question used by news media as a lead-in for stories about second-term policy agendas. Here in California, there's nothing rhetorical about it because no one is sure what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will do during his second term...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A television station apologized to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Friday after discovering that several Democratic activists were in its audience for a voter forum. The forum at KNBC was intended to help voters learn more about Schwarzenegger's slate of initiatives on Tuesday's ballot. But the Republican governor was peppered with questions with a partisan slant during Thursday's broadcast, and at one point a man in the audience tried to shout him down. The audience of about 75 people was selected by a research company, which was directed to assemble a balanced group of voters from the Los...