While Republicans lost the California governorship, they defeated Democrats in the seven other most-populous states, and most of those races were won in landslides.

George W. Bush plunged into the most-populous state today for the first time as a Presidential candidate.

The campaign in the second most-populous state in the West comes at a time when gun opponents are moving on two new fronts.

Why would Senator John McCain pull out of the only Republican debate scheduled in the nation's most-populous state the week before the highest-stakes primary on the calendar?

It is the eleventh largest state in India and the seventh most-populous state.

And all along the way there was talk of hardship and change, of a struggle that could alter the face of the nation's most-populous state.

Mr. Barnes leads the next most-populous state with a Democratic governor.

California, the most-populous state, also votes that day, but, as ever, it is more or less incomprehensible.

Mr. Specter has been elected to the Senate three times from the fifth most-populous state.

The battle has begun in California, the most-populous state and one in which the union says working conditions are particularly susceptible to organizing.