Posted on 10/10/2006 8:19:34 PM PDT by freedomdefender
Worried Democrats said Sunday that Phil Angelides failed to achieve the breakthrough he needed in the sole gubernatorial debate and expressed fear that his campaign's trajectory threatened others on the statewide ticket.
Fellow Democrat John Garamendi, in a tight race for lieutenant governor against Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock, has started to distance himself from Angelides. He said in a television interview aired Sunday that he disagreed with an Angelides plan to raise taxes on corporations and the well-to-do.
[snip]On Sunday, the example cited repeatedly by Angelides' disappointed party brethren was the 1994 election, when then-Treasurer Kathleen Brown lost in a landslide and dragged several fellow Democrats down with her.
"When you have a situation like we had in 1994, when the top of the ticket collapses, it clearly has a downdraft effect," said Democratic strategist Garry South.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Perhaps Angelides should pose for a photo in a tank.
This from the LA Times? Things must be worse than we thought for the dims in Kalifornia.
Trying to frighten the dem voters into voting.
Dukakis is about 15 points behind... :)
I hope this happens. I would love to see McClintock and Poochigian in office.
I love the sound of that, though I wish it would say "Dems fear "Nation ticket-wide COLLAPSE"!!
Don't worry, there will be about a week's worth of hit pieces on Arnold/puff pieces on Mr. Peepers (credit Hugh Hewitt with that one)right before the election, and an interestingly timed free home delivery of the Democrat Times of Los Angeles (credit Larry Elder for that one) at the same time.
I say that, because that's exactly what happened in 2003 a week before the recall election. A week before the election, we started getting the DNC Times free (we don't subscribe), and right after Arnold won, the delivery "mysteriously" stopped. Just be ready, it's coming.
Hopefully Angelides will continue to turn off the Democrat base, reducing turnout, creating an even playing field for conservative Republicans.
If conservative Republicans can gain statewide offices, the CaGOP base will be in a much better position to recover from Schwarzenegger when he is finally termed out of office.
"expressed fear that his campaign's trajectory threatened others "
Never heard an uncontrolled spiral described that way before....
I still can't understand why Angelides got the democratic nod in the first place. He's a pencil neck geek with a whiny voice and ZERO charisma. They put a guy like that up against a movie star?? In California?? A longtime Clinton kneecap sucker, he could always be counted on to throw a "fundraiser" (translation - influence peddling party) for Clinton when he flew out here for the day at taxpayer expense to pick up a few hundred thousand bucks. It was a disgusting spectacle that apparently Philboy thinks everyone's forgotten.
John Garamendi is a genuinely good man, who would probably be governor right now if he hadn't made his disgust at Clinton's behavior in office so obvious in 1998.
Ditto. Any polls available?
Did the Democrat Calif committee have something to do with his being the candidate over Wesley or was it purely the result of the primary? Not a smart move either way. Wesley was a better bet.
LA Times Poll:
Governor (9/30/06): http://www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2006-09/25655577.pdf
Down Ticket (9/29/06): http://www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2006-09/25655150.pdf
There probably is a poll but I don't have a source or a link right now. I will check tomorrow though.
Bummer. Jerry Brown. Yuck. Yauuck!
Arnold will resurrect the Republican party but he is not conservative. It's good that he has an 'R' by his name but conservatives are not a force in CA politics. I wish things were different here.
Sadly, Governor Moonbeam will win. I doubt that middle-of-the-road voters can get past Poochigian's name. Yes, people are that shallow here.
Great, then all of California can become like Oakland.
What a future.
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