It's hard to see Al Gore or George W. Bush having anything close to that kind of a relationship with the Golden State. Gore is too stiff and Ivy League, with a hip-ness that can look purchased and contrived. Bush's social views may be too rigid for this state, though his style is more Clinton's. If Gore thinks he needs to be coaxing votes in California after Oct. 25 or so, he's in what Bush's father might call deep doo-doo. If California is the future of America, then we are in for one heck of a ride.
Nothing ever settles for long in the Golden State.
One medium supplanting another, all launched here. Already, somewhere in Silicon Valley, it's a good guess someone is inventing something to make the Internet obsolete. A wiseacre on the Oakland to Los Angeles shuttle this week said the next technological leap would be implanting cell phones into people's heads. He was kidding - we think. It already looks like that.