[Sabertooth]

If McClintock can't win a majority of FReepers...

False premise. This is like Democrats claims that Bush didn't win Florida.

Polls close. Polls end. Counting and recounting stops.

I'll concede that Free Republic polls are unscientific, but McClintock has won every one of them thus far.

He did even better in the one poll where the results for California Freepers were presented...

After the debate who do you support for Governor of California?

Results as of Sept 9, 2003 10:00 pm PDT using the state designation on the FR profile pages to breakout California totals:

	California	Unknown	Total
McClintock	174	144	789
Schwarzenegger	89	143	612
Other	2	16	40
Undecided	7	15	88

Free Republic California Gubernatorial Poll

The September 9th California Freeper totals...

McClintock 174 = 64%

Arnold 89 = 33%

[Registered]

I'll concede that Free Republic polls are unscientific, but McClintock has won every one of them thus far.

Not only unscientific, but they do not even in the slightest reflect the voting demographics of California.

[William Tell]

The September 9th California Freeper totals... 

   McClintock 174 = 64% 
   Arnold 89 = 33% 

The September 9th unknown states Freeper totals...

   McClintock 144 = 50%
   Arnold 143 = 50%

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Does anybody care to hazard a guess as to why the percentages are different based on Freepers identifying Kalifornia as their home state? This would appear to be a statistically significant difference.

Can it be that Kalifornian Freepers are more fed up with the liberal agenda and are more offended by the idea that one can solve a budget crisis by earmarking $450 billion dollars of tax money for child care or $60 million dollars for hydrogen fueling stations? That's one possibility.

Another is that gun-owners in other states are much less sensitive to the disarmament campaign which has gone so far in Kalifornia and with which Arnold finds no objection. That is what motivates me.