Tom McClintock

For Tom McClintock, it's first things first. The veteran state lawmaker from Thousand Oaks, a conservative thorn in Arnold Schwarzenegger's side during last year's gubernatorial recall election, is eyeing a run for lieutenant governor, or maybe state...

State Sen. Tom McClintock vowed time and again to remain in the gubernatorial recall race until the end. For the Thousand Oaks Republican, the end came shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday, when he conceded the election to Arnold Schwarzenegger and pledged...

Arnold Schwarzenegger won the historic California recall election Tuesday as a tide of voter anger toppled Gray Davis just 11 months after the Democrat had been reelected governor. In a popular revolt unmatched in the 92 years that Californians have held...

A federal appeals court Tuesday put the California recall race back on track for an Oct. 7 election, reversing an order to postpone the vote and setting off a 13-day sprint to a final public judgment on Gov. Gray Davis. Lawyers for the American Civil...

SAN FRANCISCO - With a federal judicial panel likely to reinstate the Oct. 7 date for the California recall election, Gov. Gray Davis and the candidates vying to succeed him are preparing for a final two-week campaign push. An opinion poll released...

LOS ANGELES -- In a stunning finale to a tumultuous campaign, angry California voters fired Gov. Gray Davis less than a year into his term and lifted movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger into the governor's chair in yesterday's recall election....

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge struck down a portion of California's recall law yesterday, but the ruling will not stop the Oct. 7 election to remove Gov. Gray Davis. It will only change the way the balloting is done. U.S. District Judge Barry Moskowitz...

California voters are almost evenly split on whether to recall Gov. Gray Davis, and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante retains a narrow lead over Arnold Schwarzenegger in the tightening race for a successor, according to a new Los Angeles Times poll. Likely voters...

The volatility of the recall campaign can spin you around so fast that poll results reported two weeks ago are very old news compared to poll results reported this week. The compressed election has events daily that change the tenor of the race, while...

LOS ANGELES -- Jim and Mill LaVerde followed it like a pennant race. Sam and Stephanie Larson saw it as a morality play. Eleanor Viggers was drawn to it like a train wreck. Steve and Yolanda Whitehorse just tried not to come to blows over it. All seven...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - While Democrats urged one of their own to drop out of the recall election yesterday, the list of Republican contenders grew as former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth announced his candidacy a day before the filing deadline....

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote himself out of an important scene in the recall election Wednesday when he skipped the campaign's first debate, giving his opponents the spotlight all to themselves and allowing them to move far...