Just five weeks until Election Day, early voting by mail will begin next week, so what do the latest polls say about some of California’s hotly contested ballot measures?

The campaigns for the rival sports gambling measures have spent almost half a billion dollars now trying to pass their initiatives, but is all that money pouring down the drain?

For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart spoke with Doug Sovern, KCBS political reporter and host of “The State of California.”