The Republican candidates for governor will test their mettle head to head in their first debate Monday night. But one of the candidates, Steve Poizner, was already trying to prove his oratorical superiority at the party's convention Saturday evening. "As you can see here, I'm not going to...  more...

Forget about Hot Air, the name Carly Fiorina's campaign gave its new surrealistic video short featuring the elongated head of Sen. Barbara Boxer...  more...

State Sen. Abel Maldonado, the moderate Santa Maria Republican running for lieutenant governor, opened his speech to party convention delegates Saturday afternoon by acknowledging the discomfort many of them have with him for supporting new taxes, among other votes he has taken. When he walked...  more...

Carly Fiorina unveiled her campaign’s newest strange video production, Hot Air, over lunch at the California Republican convention Saturday. The seven-minute extended commercial, posted below, follows the elongated head of Sen. Barbara Boxer...  more...

An heir of one of the founders of Hewlett-Packard traveled west this weekend to rail against Republican Senate candidate and former HP chief Carly Fiorina -- and to raise money for one of Fiorina’s GOP...  more...

Sure, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is saturating broadcast television up and down the state with her campaign ads. But this weekend, as the Republican Party faithful gather in Santa Clara for the state party convention, Whitman has gone a step further: She's purchased her own...  more...

The ad man who brought us Demon Sheep -- along with King Rat and other strange political fauna -- is back with another outlandish production. Call it Fred’s Zeppelin. Actually, it’s Barbara Boxer -- blown up and distended to...  more...

As Republicans gather for their convention this weekend in Santa Clara, the GOP candidates for U.S. Senate have been reaching out to the delegates to make their case for why they are the best pick to take on more...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has found the way to the hearts of GOP convention-goers -- through their livers. Whitman is hosting a reception tonight with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. But, more important, perhaps are the five words at the bottom of her invitation --...  more...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has a message for Democrats about her taxes: I'll show you mine if you show me yours. In her first full news conferences in six months, Whitman said she would release her taxes as soon as her gubernatorial rival, Jerry Brown, releases his. ...  more...