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To: ElkGroveDan
So then you think a moderate CAN win?

Yes. I ask you , who was the last conservative to win a state wide office like Governor or Senator in California?

214 posted on 08/29/2003 6:42:17 AM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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To: finnman69
In 1994 we won 4 statewide offices, Treasurer, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Insurance Commissioner and Governor. Matt Fong who won Treasurer is hard to categorize, but is often labeled as a conservative, Attorney General Dan Lungren - conservative, Secretary of State Bill Jones - conservative, Ins Comm Quackenbush - liberal, Gov Pete Wilson - liberal, so that's 2-1/2 to 2-1/2. Conservatives also took control of the Assembly that year, but it took 12 months before we were able to put conservative Curt Pringle in as speaker, thanks to moderate Paul Horcher who decided to vote for Willie Brown. moderate Michael Huffington running for U.S. Senate lost that year as did conservative Tom McClintock running for controller.

If you look at 1992 when conservative Bruce Herschensohn and moderate John Seymour were running for the two US Senate seats that were open you will notice that Herschensohn came within a whisker of beating Boxer, thanks to a last-minute dirty trick, but Seymour lost by a huge margin on the same ballot with the same group of voters.

If I had the time I could go on and on about 98, 2000, 2002, and how moderate nominees get beaten really badly and conservative's lose by small margins. In 2002 the party establishment threw about amillion dollars at the end to really liberal Republican Gary Mendoza running for Insurance Commissioner, who lost substantially. Everyone flipped the bird at McClintock who came within a fraction of a percent of winning.

219 posted on 08/29/2003 8:30:18 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (It's time for Arnold to stop splitting the Republican vote and step aside for the good of the party)
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