Ask the people what they want

摘要

John kerry is bound to carry California. The re-election of the Democrats' Senator Barbara Boxer looks assured. And, given bipartisan gerrymandering, nobody expects much change in the House. So will November 2nd be a wasted day for California's 15.6m registered voters? Not necessarily. Depending on how the voters react to the 16 citizens' initiatives on the ballot, America's most populous state may soon free some 26,000 convicted felons, become the casino capital of the nation, force firms to provide health insurance to their workers, create a DNA database from crime suspects, make polluters harder to sue and plough $300m a year into stem-cell research. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a 12-page guide telling voters what he thinks about all this.