An historic election

It is a potentially historic election with a distinctly Californian scent. Kevin Modesti in the Daily News.

That's not only because Tuesday's California ballot comes with a strong whiff of Proposition 19, which asks voters to make the nation's leading marijuana-growing state the first to legalize recreational pot use.

Statewide candidates include two of California's most storied officeholders, as well a pair of Silicon Valley business icons, and rising political stars. Legislative and congressional races find Republicans fighting uphill to win control of one of the famously Democratic-leaning states. Initiatives offer big changes for a state government that has been called uniquely dysfunctional.