From the BBC Online
Dated Friday August 7
California's continuing crisis
By Rachel Clarke
BBC News Online in Washington
California has the most people of any of the United States and some of its biggest problems too.
Those problems have led to the staging of an unprecedented recall election for the state's Governor Gray Davis.
And while Mr Davis' unpopularity is fuelling the demands for a change at the top, the issues will still have to be faced whether he stays in the governor's mansion or if he is replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger or another challenger.
California's budget crisis has been coming top of voters' concerns, and Mr Davis' woes, in surveys conducted across the state.
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