In the first vital weeks of the primary season, candidates will be wooing a population that is more diverse, more urban and much bigger than they have in the past. That's thanks to California.
Loans of less than $10,000 with rates of over 100% have swelled to nearly 1/3 of California's non-bank consumer lending market. Consumer advocates say that lenders are profiting off of borrowers' desperation or lack of financial sophistication.
Here's what California's already doing, or considering, as the Democrats who control the state pursue policies that are a repudiation of the current federal approach.
California Republican delegates gather to elect a new party chair, many may be pondering and likely fiercely debating a much bigger question: What now?