Posted on 01/18/2006 8:34:29 PM PST by FairOpinion
Matthew Dowd, the chief strategist for President Bush's re-election campaign, has been hired by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, according to sources close to the administration.
Dowd has been participating in strategy calls, as the governor begins to put together an election campaign, the sources said. The governor also recently hired Steve Schmidt, an adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, as his campaign manager.
Schmidt is working on the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito and will join Schwarzenegger's campaign when they conclude.
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If he went for conservative ideals, he could save a lot of cash. This loser is lost. So is California.
I believe that he will be re-elected but we shall see.
What differnce would it make?
Check out this demographics:
I just found some recent, very interesting statistics, as of Aug. 2005.
SAVE IT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE, in case I won't be able to find it.
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/JTF_VoterProfilesJTF.pdf
The Democratic Party currently has an advantage of 1.4 million voters over the Republican Party (7.1 million to 5.7 million) or 9 percentage points (43% to 34%), according to the Secretary of State.
Democratic voters (34%) are as likely as Republican voters (32%) to say that their party loyalty is “not very strong.” However, the fact that independents are more likely to lean toward Democrats than Republicans (42% to 28%) tends to work to the disadvantage of the GOP in statewide elections.
CA LIKELY VOTERS: 44% DEM, 37% REP.
The only way Republican propositions, or candidate can possibly win, is if Republicans turn out in droves.
No matter how you spin it, he will be better than any democrat.
This has been the problem, hasn't it? I just can't understand the complacency.
Arnold DID go for conservative ideals, when he reformed the welfare system, got the Legislature to back off from the driver licenses for illegals, then vetoed it, when the bill was put on his desk, he vetoed homosexual marriage bill, he had the guts to try to pull out the rug from under the public unions, control spending, with his propositions on the special election. But conservatives stayed home, while Dems and public unions got out the vote and the props got soundly defeated.
So Arnold has to go to the middle to get reelected, otherwise, we can look forward to leftist socialists like Angelides, or maybe Al Gore -- he did recently move to CA.
Do whom do you prefer, Arnold or Al Gore?
No argument there. But, here in CA, it's kinda like arguing with Nurse Ratchet.
I voted for McClintock, an actual conservative.
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No matter how you spin it, he will be better than has been able to outspend any democrat ever elected before.
The Democraphic shows why a conservative, who only gets Republican votes has no chance in winning in a state election. The fact that all state wide elected offices, with the exception of that of the governor, is filled with Democrats.
The only way a Republican can get elected, if he/she can also get lots of independent and some Dem votes. Die-hard conservatives cannot do this.
"Do whom do you prefer, Arnold or Al Gore?"
Anyone know the deal on Gore buying a home in Frisco?
Can he actually run for Governor here?
Of course the Dem Legislature had nothing to do with it. (/sarcasm)
"Democratic control of the state is in no immediate danger. Democrats hold solid majorities in the Legislature and a 33-to-20 edge in the state's congressional delegation. Kerry beat Bush by 10 percentage points, 54 percent to 44 percent, and Democrat Barbara Boxer, one of the nation's most liberal senators, won re-election with 58 percent of the vote. "
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/07/MNGQO9NJOM1.DTL
Arnold goes for top talent.
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So when and where will President Bush be appearing with the Gub during his re-election run? .. or will he embrace the President and not just some of his worker bees.
FO, he was elected in the recall with a lot of dem and indie support , mostly due to Q factor.
He is going to try and pull it off the same way by moving to the middle.
I hope he at least shows up for some debates this time.
Dowd also authored this opinion piece in the NY Times, trying to say that the illegal immigration is going to solve itself through economic expansion and Mexico becoming so plentifulthat fewer young people will come to the United States.A former Democrat who lives in Austin, Texas, Dowd oversaw all aspects of Bush's 2004 campaign and was the pollster for his 2000 effort.
The Mexican Evolution
New York Times ^ | August 1, 2005 | Matthew Dowd
Posted on 08/01/2005 6:00:16 AM PDT by Irontank
He also runs a consulting firm called ViaNovo with offices in Monterrey, Mexico to serve their Mexican clients, according to their website.
Yes, Gore can run, and God forbid, may even win.
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/gov-qual.pdf
"Be a registered voter and otherwise qualified to vote for that office at the time that
nomination papers are issued to the person
It seems like there are no other residency requirements.
I think the Dems concluded they needed a bigger name than Angelides to beat Arnold, and Gore thinks he can remake himself and use CA governorship as a springboard for another run at the presidency of the US.
Our fine "so-called" conservatives might just be the ones who give us Al Gore governor and future President of the US, by staying home to spite Arnold.
The same types of people who voted against GHW Bush, because he was "not conservative enough" and gave us 8 years of Clinton.
Gore doesn't meet the residence requirements. He would have had to be here for years, not months.
You can stick with your Angelides mantra.
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