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How did it come to this? Underwhelmed Democrats are reportedly asking each other this simple question six days out from the election as Vice President Kamala Harris continues to stumble eagerly from one disappointment to the next on the campaign trail. Amie Parnes from The Hill reports fingers in Democratic circles are already being pointed behind the scenes in the event their candidate falls to surging former President Donald Trump. The senior staff writer details while some Democrats hold out hope for Harris others have expressed mounting frustration about a string of factors that have plagued the campaign almost from...

Florida beat UCLA 73-57

There’s plenty to quibble about in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal - the fact that it relies on a highly dubious and unlikely plan to pass a $15 billion bond measure; questions about the treatment of local governments; doubts about the wisdom of raising tuitions - again - at California’s community colleges, state colleges and universities; suspicion that not enough fat at the state level is being cut, whether it’s at state prisons, in legislative offices or buried in layers of bureaucracy. But we’ll leave the details of the budget proposal for another time. Right now, we’re concerned about the...