[Jay D. Dyson]

9 percent won't even get close to a win. McClintock needs to drop out now.

I have a better idea. How about Schwarzenegger drops out and endorses McClintock. Then we'll have an actual conservative with 34% of the vote.

...unless, of course, you want to argue that most of the 25% voting for Arnold are Democrats. If you argue that, perhaps you'd care to explain why you support a candidate that caters to the Left?

-Jay

[rivercat]

Simon is yesterday's news... He should bow out and endorse McClintock. That'll put him at 16%, for now.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Its math, Jay. Dems have a 1.5 million voter edge on registration (lets not forget that extra number of 150,000 registered Greens), and there are over two million official independents. Under your scenario where all other GOP candidates drop out and endorse McClintock, McClintock can get every single GOP vote cast, and he still won't win. On the other hand, a candidate running toward the middle like Arnold will garner a good number of those independents, and will gank some democrats in the process.