SCHWARZENEGGER BY A CALIFORNIA LANDSLIDE: POLLS
New York Post ^ | 8/12/03 | DAVID K. LI
Posted on 08/12/2003 12:57 AM PDT by kattracks
August 12, 2003 -- LOS ANGELES - Two new polls yesterday showed Arnold Schwarzenegger winning the California gubernatorial race by a landslide, as embattled Gov. Gray Davis called the recall an "insult."In a poll released by KABC-TV in L.A. last night, 66 percent who said they were "certain to vote" in the historic Oct. 7 California recall backed the removal of Davis, a Democrat, while 32 percent opposed it. Of the replacement candidates, Schwarzenegger beat Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, the ballot's only major Democrat, by 51 percent to 17 percent, according to the phone poll taken on the weekend.
Former Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth is at 6 percent and former federal prosecutor Bill Simon, who lost to Davis last November, at 7 percent.
"The recall is a bad idea, it's a waste of $70 million, and in my judgment, it's an insult to the 8 million people who went to the polls last November," Davis told reporters at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Holocaust and tolerance museum in West L.A.
"I come from the school where once an election is cast and someone is chosen to be the leader, everyone gets behind that leader and does the people's business," Davis said.
A Gallup poll released earlier yesterday drew similar results with pro-recall forces winning nearly a two-thirds majority, while Schwarzenegger led Bustamante, 42 percent to 22 percent, among replacement candidates.
Bustamante tried to turn his lack of wealth into a political advantage.
"I am an average guy trying to do an above-average job," Bustamante told CNN's "American Morning."
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Where is Terry McAuallife (sp???)? He was making the news daily before Bustamante got in, trying to hold the dems together. Since then I have not seen nor heard from him....
Hey I now have a California antenna flag on my car in support of the recall
First Terminate the Unions
Townhall.com ^ | August 12, 2003 | Rich Lowry
Posted on 08/12/2003 6:28 AM PDT by LisaAnne
If you weren't thrilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger's surprise announcement of his gubernatorial candidacy last week, you either have no heart or work as a lobbyist for a California public-employees union. His jumping into the race was an adrenaline shot for a recall effort that, if successful, will be the most bracing act of political hygiene since Theodore Roosevelt took on the meatpackers.
If you were to distill all that is worst about American politics into one man, he would have perfectly combed hair and he would answer to "Gray." A cautious political hack whose only strength is selling out to unions and trial lawyers, Gov. Gray Davis is Bill Clinton without the conscience, Al Gore without the charm...
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