On 18 Aug 2003 23:15:00 +0200, Till Westermayer till@tillwe.de gave utterance to the following:
I'd say there is a difference between the local level ("Canterbury Regional Council", "Indian electoral districts", "Orange County School Board") and the sub-national state level ("England", "States of India", "California"). These difference is especially visible in the significance to the rest of the world.
Well even the smaller states of India are more populous than most US states.
Excuse my ignorance of the US electoral system, but are there gubnertorial contests happening in some or all of the other states at the same time? If there are, then why should California be singled out, other than for the reason that California tends to be self aggrandizing? And the reason for that might be that it is home to the third-largest film and TV industry in the world and the accompanying media circus?