[ElkGroveDan]

Self-described moderate voters supported Governor Schwarzenegger over challenger Phil Angelides by a double-digit margin (57% to 39%).

Just more proof that "self described moderates" are liberals in denial. This time they had two liberals to choose from; the honest liberal, or the liberal in denial. Of course they voted for one of their own.

[FairOpinion]

"moderates"/indpendents breaking for the Dems 2 to 1 is NOT news, it's well known.

CALIFORNIA VOTER AND PARTY PROFILES

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.

Among those most likely to vote in this year’s elections, Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 7-point margin (44% to 37%), while 15 percent of likely voters are registered as independents.

... 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."

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16% of those claiming to be conservatives voting for Angelides isn't really news for some of us -- but it IS evidence that a number of people running around claiming to be conservative were and are indeed shilling for the Dems, trying to divide conservatives to help the Dems.



BUT, as I said before, anyone voting for Angelides is NO CONSERVATIVE.

[Czar]

My own experience has been that the so-called "moderates", who sometimes masquerade as pretend-conservatives, detest being called what they are--liberals--and will shriek to the high heavens they are "moderates".