Schwarzenegger Elected New Governor in California Recall

CNSNews.com ^ | 10/08/03 | Randy Hall

[kattracks]

(CNSNews.com)- Voters in California chose to replace Democrat Gov. Gray Davis with Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger during Tuesday's recall election.

Even though many analysts had predicted the outcome would be close and 2 million absentee ballots had yet to be counted, most major news organizations called the election within minutes after polls in the Golden State closed at 8 p.m. PDT.

Early results showed that more than 55 percent of Californians voted to remove Davis, while less than 45 percent voted against the recall.

By losing the Oct. 7 election, Davis becomes the second governor in the U.S. to be recalled. The first was Lynn Frazier of North Dakota, who was removed from office in 1921.

The second part of the recall ballot dealt with who should take Davis's place as governor, and early results indicated that about half of the voters selected Schwarzenegger, while about one-third supported Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante.

Coming in third during early tabulations was state Senator Tom McClintock, who remained in the recall race even though many officials in his party feared the conservative Republican might split the anti-Davis vote.

Peter Camejo of the Green party was projected to come in a distant fourth.

The fate of Gov. Davis wasn't the only item on the recall ballot. A majority of voters rejected Proposition 54, which would bar state and local governments from collecting most data on race, religion and ethnicity.

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[smadurski]

DUers crying tonight. Of course they are already screaming voter fraud and they want to recall Arnold.

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[annyokie]

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[DoughtyOne]

Wahooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
 
Get out of Arnold's house!

[Alberta's Child]

The biggest loser of the night may very well be the LA Times. They've probably lost thousands of subscriptions as a result of their thinly-disguised political bias over the last couple of weeks, and they don't have anything to show for it.

[Texas Eagle]

[kattracks]

Dems: New Recall in 100 Days

I really hope they try it.

[TheDon]

Nice thing is that the margin of victory should preclude any court action. (I know, I know, it's the Demorats we are talking about, still...)

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Oh great, now we've got a Kennedy in the Governor's mansion! VLWC (vast left wing conspiracy)?

[Theresawithanh]

Yep, just heard Paul Begala on CNN saying something about that.

Any time the demo-ratz are crying, I am a happy Pubbie!

And, I'll bet Daschle is saddened, saddened!

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

How many votes did Gallagher get? Gallagher of watermelon-smashing fame.

[DoctorZIn]

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Shall GRAY DAVIS be recalled (removed) from the office of Governor?

36.4 % ( 5534 of 15213 ) precincts reporting as of Oct 7, 2003 at 10:15 pm

                       Votes            Percent

Yes         1,619,089             54.8 
No          1,337,092             45.2    

County Returns

Leading Candidates to succeed GRAY DAVIS as Governor if he is recalled:
36.4 % ( 5534 of 15213 ) precincts reporting as of Oct 7, 2003 at 10:15 pm
Candidate Party Votes Percent
Arnold Schwarzenegger Rep 1,381,287 49.2 Cruz M. Bustamante Dem 885,956 31.6 Tom McClintock Rep 358,268 12.8 Peter Miguel Camejo Grn 67,344 2.4 Arianna Huffington Ind 27,107 1.0 Peter V. Ueberroth Rep 10,550 0.4 Larry Flynt Dem 5,399 0.2 Bill Simon Rep 3,985 0.2 George B. Schwartzman Ind 3,853 0.2 Gary Coleman Ind 3,706 0.2
Leader Order	Alphabetical Order

State Ballot Measures

36.4 % ( 5534 of 15213 ) precincts reporting as of Oct 7, 2003 at 10:15 pm

Proposition 53 Infrastructure: Finance.
	Total Votes	Percent
Yes	935,249	35.1
No	1,722,102	64.9

Proposition 54 Classification by Race, ... Color or Origin.
	Total Votes	Percent
Yes	1,114,324	40.2
No	1,656,325	59.8

County Returns

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Chris Matthews on Hardball: "Shrivers and Kennedys walking in."

I think I'm going to be sick! That is EXACTLY what I didn't want to see!

[petuniasevan]

So far the melon-head has 1971 votes.

See here: http://vote2003.ss.ca.gov/Returns/alpha/00.htm

[Tempest]

Woot!!! I've been looking at the reporting back from all the precints and it looks like San francisco is completely lost!

[vger]

My Predictions:

1. Schwarzeneger will excel as California's Governor;

2. Bush wins 2004 Presidential election for including California;

3. Arnold faces Hildebeast in 2008 in Presidential election and is victorious!

vger has spoken......

[MattGarrett]

MANDATE, BABY!

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Thanks! Gallagher now has 2265 and Gary Coleman has 4750.

Chris Matthews on Arnold: "Look out, lefties, he's coming to get you!" That was laugh-out-loud funny!