Column: California voters are fed up with crime and, apparently, inaction by Democrats

"The support numbers are stunning for Proposition 36, sponsored by the California District Attorneys Assn. It would increase punishment for theft and hard drug offenses and impose required treatment for repetitive criminal addicts."

"I was surprised by the level of support," says Mark Baldassare, a pollster with the Public Policy Institute of California. But he adds this caution: "Propositions aren't like candidate races. The bottom can fall out of them..."

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