Posted on 12/17/2005 1:07:44 PM PST by RWR8189
December 16, 2005--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger trails two potential Democratic challengers by single digits in his bid for re-election.
Phil Angelides, the Democratic state treasurer, leads Schwarzenegger 44% to 40%. Steve Westly, the State Controller, leads the Governor 46% to 39%.
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Schwarzenegger is viewed favorably by 43% of California voters and unfavorably by 55%. For Angelides, the numbers are 37% favorable and 37% unfavorable. Thirty-eight percent (38%) have a favorable opinion of Westly while 32% take the opposite view.
Fifty percent (50%) of California voters favor a proposal to build a barrier along the U.S.-Mexican border. Forty-one percent (41%) are opposed.
Fifty-three percent (53%) of California voters say that the situation in Iraq is a more important voting issue than immigration. Thirty-seven percent (37%) disagree and say that immigration is the more important issue.
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When the Democrat terrorist Party regains control of the governorship of California, I recommend no payments of foreign aid to that country within a country.
Where is the California Gop.
They allowed Arnold to put the special election for Cunningham's seat on the same date as the june primary for governor's race. The dem primary will be very competitive and will draw dem voters out. Their will be no gop primary for governor.
Arnold did Busby the dem candidate a major favor as she will get all the downticket votes from dem primary voters and the gop candidate will have no downticket coatails.
Gop candidates for that district were stabbed in the back.
Arnold delayed the special election for as long as he could up to 180 days to accomidate the county of san diego.
His first priority should have been making sure he didn't give the dems a huge advantage for that seat.
No surprise about the results among older women.
Angelides will be the worst Kalifornia governor ever brought into office. He is more willing to spend on any and every pet project than even Grayout Davis.
Angelides has spent a lifetime in Kalifornia politics, keeping his name in front of the voters, without anything really controversial. He is a socialist of the first order.
Here's hoping Arnold turns the tide next year and gets reelected. He does have his faults but he is much better than any of the loony far left, anti-American socalist Democrats California has to offer.
Arnold is worth voting for - if only because you will get to watch all the hippies go into seizures if he wins again.
As a Californian any suggestion that we are a welfare state is ludicrous. In fact, we receive less federal money than we contribute. As of fiscal 2003 California received a paltry 83 cents for each dollar of federal tax paid, compare that to Alabama ($1.62 for each dollar paid) or Virginia ($1.74 for each dollar paid) and you'll wonder why red states are so odious toward welfare.
Don't believe me? See for yourself! http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm
Welcome to FR.
Yawn.
I'm not a Californian, but if I were, I wouldn't vote for Arnold. Why waste your vote on a RINO?
Read up on Angelides. Without a better alternative than Arnold, you'd vote for Arnold with this creap.
This is a populist idea but a bad one. The Mexicans come over for the jobs and socialist benefits. We can turn off that tap for free.
If Hillary gets elected President, that barrier will be used to keep us in!
If Ahnold loses, he's welcome in Taxylvania. Mexifornia can have our gov - Ed Rendell
We'd probably be detained for interstate flight to avoid assimilation.
California will get the governor it deserves.
"If Ahnold loses, he's welcome in Taxylvania. Mexifornia can have our gov - Ed Rendell"
I'll trade Jon Corzine for him.
Well, Ahnold, you can seek your liberal leftist queer aide Susan Kennedy (one of your liberal leftist wife's relatives, perhaps) for answers.
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