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...Still, the Angelides strategy - particularly the tax cut plan - has energized his campaign for the moment, and might help to inoculate the Democrat somewhat from Republican attacks that he's a tax-and-spend liberal, says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, political analyst and senior scholar at USC, who was at the back of the room listening to his remarks. Additionally, she said, "Angelides now seems to have a message and a focus that could force the Governor to narrow his message in a way that disturbs his carefully constructed coalition [of disparate independents and mainstream GOP voters]. If that happens, this...
Perhaps the state has been through too much to be able to tax its way out of its latest catastrophe. "This time," says political scientist Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the Claremont Graduate School, "we are facing the fifth year of a budget deficit. We are still in the grip of the most serious recession in California since the Great Depression. And on top of everything else, this is an election year in California...
...just 52% in an election in which less than 40% of registered voters took part. "The message to government is 'Give us a discrete program, a finite cost, convince us that you're going to spend the money wisely, and we will write you a limited check,' " says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst at Claremont College's graduate center for politics and policy...
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