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To: vbmoneyspender
Good observation but you are wrong. A mcclintock vote is also a recall vote. Davis is not the issue he is doomed. GONE out. The issue is bustamonte. Most votes... yes I would rather have tom vs bustamonte but that is not the case. I want the win first and then I will worry about controling arnold.
222 posted on 09/10/2003 7:38:47 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: Walkingfeather
Davis is not the issue he is doomed.

It is way too early to say that. Davis is still the most dangerous Democrat in the state. He has won 5 statewide elections by going negative on opponents and has demonstrated that he is fully prepared to chop-block fellow Democrats (such as when he went after Feinstein in, I believe, 1992) in order to win. Given Davis' proven success at taking apart both Republican and Democratic opponents, it makes good sense for McClintock to stay in the race so that Davis can't focus all of his fire on Arnold.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that Arnold is actually being helped right now by McClintock remaining in the race because Davis is being presented with multiple targets that he is going to have to hit in order to prevail. Davis is reluctant to do this because (as even Lockhart has opined) he knows that going negative on multiple targets will lead to a backlash. However, if Davis has just one Republican target to go after, he is a cunning enough politician that he just might prevail.

236 posted on 09/10/2003 7:48:13 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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