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That only leaves the question of ... Are drowning California Conservatives SMART enough to grab the lifeline within their reach

Well they have 45 days to find one of the lower tier candidates [single digit] and boost the ratings by at least 1/2% per day to make it into the mid 20%range and maybe become competitive. Can that be done? Who knows but time is running out.....

The following is from the Public Policy Institute of CA poll released yesterday.... It will interesting to see polls in the next few days showing numbers taken after the Arnold news conference.....

7. Regardless of how you would vote on the first part of the recall, how would you vote on the second part of the recall ballot: If the election were held today, who would you vote for? [if necessary: read rotated list, then ask “or someone else?”]

23% Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican
18 Cruz Bustamante, Democrat
5 Tom McClintock, Republican
4 Bill Simon, Republican
4 Peter Ueberroth, Republican
3 Peter Camejo, Green Party
3 Arianna Huffington, Independent
8 Someone else (specify)
32 don’t know


PPIC Poll

[TheAngryClam]

Note that the poll sample is badly skewed.

almost 25% of the respondents aren't even registered voters.

Slightly over 25% are registered, but not likely voters. That leaves less than 50% likely voters in the poll.

The idiots and the apathetic are Arnold's main constituency.

The Field Poll, which leans leftward about 5-10% due to its sample selection methods, had Simon at 8% and McClintock at 9% in the first few days of the Schwarzenegger bandwagon.

They didn't lose nearly have of those conservative votes to Arnold as he was sending up trial balloon after trial balloon of raising taxes, first with Buffett, then with Sean Walsh just a day ago.