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BRUCE JENKINS
3-Dot Lounge opens a blog branch.
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WEATHER
Sunny.
Highs, 61-72.
Lows, 36-47.
B6
Index is on Page A2
WHALE WATCHING
Post and view photos.
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HOME-FIELD EDGE?
NOT SO MUCH
SPORTS: No top seeds among NFL’s final 4
as favorites keep falling — Eagles top Giants
SURPRISES AT
GOLDEN GLOBES
DATEBOOK: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ wins 4,
including best drama; Kate Winslet takes 2
By Joe Garofoli
Chronicle Staff Writer
Nobody disagrees that passing an economic stim-
ulus package is the top priority for the incoming
Obama administration and the new Congress. Then
what? Tighter emissions standards for cars? Easing
the rules on organizing for labor unions? Universal
health care? Ending the wars? Net neutrality?
The flipside of knitting together a winning coali-
tion of techies, anti-war activists, women, labor
unions, young voters and the like is: (a) everybody
thinks they were most instrumental in sending Oba-
ma and more Democrats to Washington, and (b) they
want Obama and the Democrats to make their policy
wish lists reality — first. Or, at least, right after a stim-
ulus bill is passed.
“But since Obama won by such a wide margin, no
one group can claim credit for his victory,” said Scott
1 AGENDAS: Page A14
For each group
backing Obama,
a vital agenda
THE PRESIDENCY IN TRANSITION
By Robert Selna and Demian Bulwa
Chronicle Staff Writers
A long-awaited study of San Francisco’s installa-
tion of surveillance cameras in high-crime areas
shows that the effort fails in its primary goal of reduc-
ing homicide and other violent crime, but succeeds
in reducing such offenses as burglary, pickpocketing
and purse-snatching.
The study found that the program, started by May-
or Gavin Newsom in 2005, is hampered by a lack of
training and oversight, a failure to integrate footage
with other police tactics, inadequate technology, and
what may be fundamental weaknesses of cameras as
devices to stop