Lowell Darling, an artist, in San Francisco on March 12, 2010. In the 32 years since Darling last ran for public office in California, Ronald Reagan was elected president, a bodybuilder was elected governor and the entire state has toddled perilously close to fiscal disaster. But one thing hasn't changed: his opponent is Jerry Brown, currently the state's attorney general. By Jesse McKinley. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)