For the moment, therefore, Mr Connerly has much more chance of influencing state politics.
Yet the more significant reason is the growing rift in state politics between rural and urban constituencies.
Like his San Franciscan counterparts, Hellman was able to parlay his financial power into political influence, making him a major behind-the-scenes player in state politics.
The upheaval in state politics may be drowning out Mr Kerry's message.
California voters said no to all eight measures on a special election ballot, including four that Governor Schwarzenegger said were essential to reforming state politics.
Many of these, such as the Texas Tribune, cover state politics.
While the federal offer of compromise was bad news for state politics, it may have been a boon for the governor's credibility as a potential presidential candidate.
Crist made his name in state politics by championing civil rights, opposing federal meddling in the Terri Schiavo case, and, as governor, making the environment a signature issue.
There was growing talk of a strike, and a deal suited Randi Weingarten, head of the teachers' union, who was able to persuade her allies in state politics to agree to mayoral control of the board.
If Mr Corzine wins in November, one of his main tasks (other than cleaning up state politics) will be to do something about New Jersey's locally levied property taxes, the highest in America, and another big campaign issue.
During his years in local and state politics, Coolidge did take a number of forward-looking positions: he favored woman suffrage, voted for a minimum wage, and, as a Yankee able to get his share of the burgeoning Irish-Catholic vote, was generally sympathetic to immigration.
He's presumably aware of the state of politics in the country.
While the main findings from the Allegheny study focus on the interest among the public in a return to political civility, opinions on the current state of politics in Washington have interesting implications for the November elections.
But the dysfunctional state of American politics does not give me great confidence in the short run.
The whole thing is useful in giving our visiting delegates an introduction to the state of Australian politics.
But if politicians bear a grave responsibility for the state of Japanese politics, so do voters who keep electing them.
Some argue that more state cash for politics would create a fairer system, making political communication less dependent on fund-raising.
She arrived in Juneau, the state capital, with a squeaky-clean agenda, vowing to reform the state's politics and root out corruption.
By choosing the governor of Alaska as his running mate, Mr McCain also turns the spotlight on the state's politics, which is currently entangled in corruption scandals.
The base is deeply woven into the state's politics.
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Now, another population boom is changing the state's politics.
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Certainly experience from abroad does not suggest that state funding is a panacea: the German constitutional court, fearing that parties were becoming over-dependent on public funds, ruled in 1992 that state funding for politics should be reduced.
The state also controls liquor sales, and to Vance, it is proof that the church still dominates Utah politics despite shifting state and city demographics.
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Together, these two steps would make the state's representative politics more moderate, says James Mayer, California Forward's director.
In the end, though, those who know the state's independent politics well say that both senators have a lot of leeway despite the high stakes and high emotions of the health care debate.
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Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida who specializes in Florida politics and state and local government, said Triplett's vote Monday to reject the police chief's resignation was surprising since the mayor voted for the no-confidence motion in the first place.
Meanwhile, two other urban blights are also forcing their way into state fairs: advertising and politics.
Reflecting the politics of his state, he has been one of most liberal Republicans in the Senate.
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