Dan Walters: Brown Leads in Race for Governor - for Now

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Californians will choose another governor in 13 months, and Jerry Brown, a one-time wunderkind of California politics who served two erratic gubernatorial terms three decades ago, has emerged as the leading contender.

As Brown - who will be 72 next year - filed papers last week to make his candidacy semi-official, a new poll showed the one-term attorney general winning the Democratic nomination handily and leading all three Republican hopefuls.

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Dan Walters: Brown Leads in Race for Governor - for Now

Those leads are not insurmountable; Brown polls under 50 percent against all three. And just as Republican conservatives are uncom...

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