First Take: Brown’s jobs plan. Republicans in peril. Fewer donations for marijuana measure.

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Jerry Brown unveils his plan for reducing unemployment and his hopes that investment in green energy will create 500,000 jobs over the next decade.

Seema Mehta looks at the role of campaign trackers, who follow candidates’ every move on the campaign trail just waiting for them to make a mistake.

Proposition 19, the measure that would legalize marijuana, has received fewer large individual donations than previous drug-related measures.

Most experts expect November to be a good one for Congressional Republicans, but Mark Z. Barabak reports some GOP House members are in danger.

Democrats campaigning for Congress are not talking about the legislative victories of the last two years.

-- Anthony York

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