New NexGen BIGpoll(TM) Results Show Voters Honing in on Schwarzenegger

MarketWire ^ | October 6, 2003

[Timesink]

This will get NO airplay over the next 24 hours...

The great thing is that it doesn't matter. And that drives the Rats even more nuts than they already are, to realize that their iron-fisted control of the "mainstream" media no longer matters.

[FairOpinion]

"Just two more hurdles before the fat lady sings: 1) voter fraud and 2) court and recount challenges. "


That is why we need a landslide. Much harder to impossible to challenge.

[FairOpinion]

In the Stanford poll a few days ago, where voters WERE faced with the actual ballot, McC got 8%.

[TheBigB]

There's a recall election in California? Hmm. Haven't seen anything about it in the media...so who's running?

[Bonaparte]

Well within the proverbial "realm of possibility" -- especially considering the recent bimbo blitz against AS and the effect it could have on the efficacy of the clothes pins some of his voters had already attached to their noses.

[CatoRenasci]

It's a bit of a problem for Tom. If he gets enough votes to damage Arnold, or enough to elect Bustamonte, he's dead in the Republican Party as an enemy. If he gets under ten percent, the 8% or so some people think he'll draw, he will have shown so little state level drawing power, he will be dead in the Republican Party as a fringe player. In truth, I think this is Tom's swan song, and he knows it. His new district includes Santa Barbara and I think includes the 10-15,000 student and faculty voters at UCSB, a notoriously liberal bunch. This is a very different district than his Ventura county/Thousand Oaks roots. I spent 5 years or so in Santa Barbara and still have friends there. I would be very suprised if Tom McClintock could win in the new district. I suspect Tom, who isn't stupid by any stretch of the imagination, knows this very well. I think he's stayed in the race on a sort of "what the hell, maybe I can parley this into a national conservative spokesman second career" philosophy. Despite all the talk about him for Senate, I think he knows he's not well-liked in the party and believes he would not get the support for a run against Boxer or Feinstein. I think he was wrong there, I think if he'd bowed out a couple of days after the debate and gotten on the bandwagon, he'd have been given both a role in the administration and a shot a the Senate. Now, I think he'll be sent to Coventry whether Arnold wins or loses.

[onyx]

Tuesday is PAYBACK DAY for all the slime and treachery.

Yes on Recall

Vote for Arnold

Yes on 54

[TheAngryClam]

Why "yes on 54?" Even Arnold says no on 54, and I thought he was your hero, to the point that you'd go and break up McClintock rallies.

[CT]

Just listen to the seminar callers calling in to TALK RADIO. Watch the desperate attempts of the media to try and make this look like it is tightening, while at the same time coming in with new charges.

Contrast this with people in Arnold's hometown in Austria - Jewish people that knew him in his youth - that laugh all this poppycock off as dirty politics, particularly the Hitler crap.

Hell, the press has better documentation that Clinton once "admired" Hitler (he married her). NewsMax had something on this. Being much better organized than we once were, I predict a huge backlash against all these 11th hour charges.

Breaking all the rules the media established for itself concerning coverage of Clinton corruption, it is probably safe to say that future liberal strategies will require a new rule book. 'Cause they done stirred up a hornet's nest! and are about to be stung.

[slimer]

The great thing is that it doesn't matter. And that drives the Rats even more nuts than they already are, to realize that their iron-fisted control of the "mainstream" media no longer matters.

I love it! I love it! I love it!

Pay back is a ____________.

[dpwiener]

It's a bit of a problem for Tom. If he gets enough votes to damage Arnold, or enough to elect Bustamonte, he's dead in the Republican Party as an enemy. If he gets under ten percent, the 8% or so some people think he'll draw, he will have shown so little state level drawing power, he will be dead in the Republican Party as a fringe player.

Those are indeed possibilities, but I think it's much more likely that Tom will emerge from this campaign with a big statewide (and nationwide) reputation and name recognition and tens of thousands of volunteers and contributors. That will be a huge jump over his previous influence. I expect him to get between 12% and 18% of the total vote, without the downside of electing Bustamante. That pretty much eviscerates the complaints of all those Republicans who were terrified that Tom would cost them the governorship. They will have turned out to be wrong, and there will be strong pressure from all sides for everyone to mend fences.

As far as Tom's state senate district is concerned, it is still gerrymandered to be a Republican district. I'm in his district and I am very familiar with local politics. Tom will have no significant difficulty retaining his state senate seat.

[CatoRenasci]

Well, we'll see who's right tomorrow. If you're right, Tom may have a seat at the table, but he will still not have any friends in the California Republican Party.

As to his new district, I've heard from several political pros that it's not a 'safe' district for Tom anymore. I'm not on the ground in Santa Barbara anymore, but it was not a place someone like Tom would be widely popular. Jury's out.