Can Anyone Govern California?

Issues that challenge the entire nation often hit California more intensely. Take political polarization. A liberal from Oakland next to a conservative from the Central Valley seem like foreigners, not neighbors...

It was not always this way. California was once dominated by centrists and its legislature reflected a culture of cross-aisle cooperation.

This article largely deals with Gov. Schwarzenegger's recent popularity drop and how he is finding it increasingly difficult to govern the state but the center portion of the article deals with how California is quickly becoming a microcosm of the partisan, polarized politics that plague our country.