California Recall Daily Thread (10/7/2003) ELECTION DAY! Be sure to vote.

Joseph Farah Column: "Arnold's Unfit" {Vote McClintock}

WND.com ^ | 10-07-03 | Farah, Joseph
Posted on 10/07/2003 6:04 AM PDT by Theodore R.
Posted: October 7, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Many conservatives and Republicans are rushing in to defend Arnold Schwarzenegger against attacks by women who say he abused them.

Some of them self-righteously point out that Democrats and liberals claimed Bill Clinton was still fit for office despite similar charges – some even worse – before and during his eight years in office....

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For many, careers and money hinge on election result

Sacramento Bee ^ | October 7, 2003 | Dan Walters
Posted on 10/07/2003 6:31 AM PDT by Cultural Jihad

For many, careers and money hinge on election result
By Dan Walters -- Bee Columnist
Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Tuesday, October 7, 2003
Ordinarily, the autumn of an odd-numbered year is a rare period of quietude within the community of politicians, lobbyists, staffers and journalists in and around the state Capitol.

With the Legislature in recess and no political campaigns under way, it's the time for casual attire, short office hours and vacations. It's the period when interest groups tote up their wins and losses during the just-concluded legislative session, plot strategy for the upcoming year -- and decide whether to fire or retain lobbyists.

But there's nothing ordinary about this autumn for denizens of the Capitol and environs. They are nervously awaiting the outcome of today's recall election because they know that careers and very large amounts of money will hinge on the outcome....

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California: Field Poll: expect 65% turnout

Dan Weintraub Weblog ^ | October 7, 2003 | Dan Weintraub
Posted on 10/07/2003 6:54 AM PDT by John Jorsett

The Field Poll estimates a huge turnout, the highest number ever for a governor's race and the highest percentage of registered voters for a governor's race in 20 years:

“In today’s historic recall election The Field Poll estimates that as many as ten million California voters will be participating in the decision as to who they want as governor for the next three years. A turnout of this magnitude would represent a 30% increase over the 7.7 million voters who participated in the 2002 gubernatorial election and would be larger than any previous non-presidential contest in state history.” ....

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California: And the envelope please

Dan Weintraub Weblog ^ | October 6, 2003 | Dan Weintraub
Posted on 10/07/2003 6:56 AM PDT by John Jorsett

Here are the final results of the major independent polls that have surveyed California voters on the recall. The date of the last night of polling is in parentheses. The replacement results are listed in this order: Schwarzenegger, Bustamante, McClintock.

Source Field (Oct. 1) 57-39; 36-26-16 Los Angeles Times (Sept. 29) 56-42; 40-32-15 Knight Ridder/NBC (Oct. 4) 54-41; 37-29-15 CNN/USA Today (Sept. 27) 63-35; 40-25-18 Survey USA (Oct.. 5)* 57-43; 46-34-13 Chamber of Commerce (Sept. 25) 53-41; 35-31-17 Knowledge Networks/Hoover (Oct. 4)** 59-41; 43-30-13

The Public Policy Institute of California, usually a major source on California public opinion, last polled on Sept. 17 and is thus not reliable at this stage in the race. For the record, the poll had the recall winning 53-42 with Bustamante leading Schwarzenegger 28-26 and McClintock at 14.

*Survey USA uses a unique form of polling with recorded voices asking the questions. **This is an online poll using a random sample....

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Young Voters Remain Disengaged Despite Recall Election Hype

dailycal.org ^
Posted on 10/07/2003 6:56 AM PDT by chance33_98

By ANA MILVEA and MY-THUAN TRAN Contributing Writers Tuesday, October 7, 2003

Although a strong showing from young voters in the polls today could sway the state's historical recall election, few in the slew of gubernatorial candidates have riled up this voting block, which is notorious for passing up elections.

Even as the entire nation works itself into a frenzy over the recall, many UC Berkeley students say they are still undecided about the election, just one day before the polls open.

"I was thinking I should probably look into who I should vote for," said UC Berkeley sophomore Christine Cusick.

Making up more than one-tenth of the adult population, young voters have the potential to impact the election's outcome, said Jack Glaser, a UC Berkeley public policy professor.

But voters 18 to 24 have the lowest turnout of all age groups. Just higher than 36 percent of eligible youth voted in the last presidential election, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

And with none of the 135 gubernatorial candidates aggressively campaigning for the youth vote, many under 25 feel ignored....

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California's Davis Finds Rythm At Race's End [In Other Words- He Know's He's Toast]

ABC News ^ | 10/7/03
Posted on 10/07/2003 7:15 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar

Oct. 7 — By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A zany Gray Davis stepped out in the final hours before the California recall election that could drive him from office on Tuesday, showing a new side to a governor widely criticized as robotic and aloof.

Davis seemed to relax at the end of a grueling campaign, designed in part to bring him closer to voters who found him less approachable than the murderous "Terminator" robot portrayed by his main rival, Arnold Schwarzenegger....

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Arnold vs. the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy

LA Times ^ | Steve Lopez
Posted on 10/07/2003 7:44 AM PDT by just the facts please
Edited on 10/07/2003 7:59 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

To all of you who e-mailed or called to say you're canceling The Times because of my transparent shilling and relentless bias against Arnold and for Gray Davis, there's only one thing I can say.

Guilty....

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Vote your conscience - California celebrates, but many conservatives seem afraid to join in.

California Political Review ^ | October 7th, 2003 | John Kurzweil
Posted on 10/07/2003 8:05 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan

Californians have thrown themselves a party, culminating today in the ouster of small, self-centered man who wanted the job of leader without bothering to lead. Gloom pervades the Democrat faction of the political class, not because they loved the little man; on the contrary, they loath him nearly as much as do ordinary Californians.

Their gloom is over their previous certitude that they were in charge: that they could do pretty much whatever they pleased, and that merely invoking a few liberal cliches — we’ve raised the minimum wage, we’ve given you the eight-hour day — would serve to palliate the people to whom it was all being done. They were wrong, and are sad to learn it.

The people, it turns out, remain sovereign, and, knowing that, have enthusiastically ignored the whining of imagined power. Today they will depose an unwanted burden, then get on with their lives....

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Calif. Hopefuls Barnstorm on Final Day

ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ | October 06, 2003 at 13:59:37 PDT | By DON THOMPSON
Posted on 10/06/2003 11:00 PM PDT by joyce11111

Las Vegas SUN
Today: October 06, 2003 at 13:59:37 PDT
Calif. Hopefuls Barnstorm on Final Day
By DON THOMPSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -

Arnold Schwarzenegger struggled to put sexual harassment allegations behind him Monday as a new poll indicated some voters were having second thoughts about recalling Gov. Gray Davis.

"The campaign is not losing momentum," Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Karen Hanretty told CBS' "The Early Show." A four-day bus tour of the state that Schwarzenegger concluded in Sacramento on Sunday had drawn thousands of enthusiastic supporters.

A poll of 1,000 registered voters, conducted by Elway-McGuire Research for Knight Ridder from Wednesday through Saturday, found the percentage of people saying they would definitely vote to oust Davis dropped from 52 percent Wednesday to 44 percent Saturday. The poll had an overall margin of error of 3 percentage points, but the margin of error for individual days was not given.

The poll also showed Schwarzenegger's lead over Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante to replace Davis narrowing slightly from an earlier survey....

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LA Times Readers Canceling

NewsMax.com ^ | 10/07/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 10/06/2003 9:43 PM PDT by kattracks

Angry Californians are slashing back at the liberal Los Angeles Times for its sleazy scandal-mongering during the recall campaign where the paper dredged up a slew of women who claim they suffered from groping by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

According to the Times, as of Saturday evening, about 1,000 readers had canceled their subscriptions to protest the handling of the Schwarzenegger story. In addition, the Times admitted getting as many as 400 phone calls critical of its coverage — many angry, some profane....

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See what happens when you put liberals in charge?

Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal ^ | 10/07/03 | Editorial
Posted on 10/07/2003 6:33 AM PDT by Phantom Lord

The California Stakes
See what happens when you put liberals in charge?

As Californians head to the polls today to decide the fate of Governor Gray Davis, we hope all of the sex-related Sturm und Drang of the past few days doesn't obscure the larger picture. What the recall represents is a referendum on the record of modern "progressive" politics.

Not long ago, our friends on the left were hailing Sacramento's liberal-controlled government as the harbinger of a new national Democratic majority. Writing in the June 2001 American Prospect, Harold Meyerson was only mildly more florid than the average pundit in explaining "California's new-found identity as a laboratory of both Democracy and democracy." ....

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Schwarzanoia strikes Mickey Kaus

Recall Fly On The Wall Web Log ^ | October 6, 2003 | Mark Paul
Posted on 10/07/2003 6:58 AM PDT by John Jorsett

Slate blogger Mickey Kaus isn't buying the "right-wing conspiracy" theory of recall, but he's gone one better, into Schwarzanoia. He lays out the string of coincidences leading to this moment, suggesting the great man may have been behind them all along.

I hate to feed Mickey's neurosis, but he's missed a key coincidence. The lawyer he mentions, who both represented Rescue California and Schwarzenegger in his immigration flap, was also the lawyer for COPS. Remember them? They were the police group that told Bill Simon that they had illegally given Gray Davis a campaign contribution in a government office and had a picture to prove it. Simon went public with the accusation, only to have it explode in his face, dooming Simon's chances of winning last year.

I knew the minute I saw the picture that it hadn't been taken in a state office. Mickey, why didn't COPS' lawyer know, too? ....

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YOU DON'T OWN ME!

Posted on 10/07/2003 7:32 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl

Last night I saw two men, in a concerted effort, remove the "JOIN ARNOLD" lawnsigns from the front of the apartment buildings I live in. I was down the street and started running to catch up with them, but they disappeared around the back of the buildings. So far, five signs have been stolen. My holy Romanian brother, freeper Humanshield, has been trying to catch whoever is doing this via various means. He figures they are Davis goons taking signs down all around town. Pigs.

A few days ago I got a flyer with Diane Feinstein's puss on it which said that "I'd just better vote NO on 54 or else any genetic disorders which are significant in the Jewish community will go unreported and we'll all suffer major consequences" (G-d forbid.) In other words: A THREAT focused directly on the Jewish community.

And what was the totally baseless "ARNOLD is a hitler (ymach shemo) lover" charge about? It was about scaring survivors of the Holocaust, their children, and grandchildren, into thinking a vote for Arnold is a vote for-- well, the worst possible kind of human being.

We are a small group of people, but almost all of us vote, hence the attention paid to us by the Democrats, who are very SWEATY and ticked off that we aren't a lock for them anymore....

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Dirt Begets Dirt (prepare yourself for 04)

Capitol Hill Blues ^ | 10/7/03 | Dan K. Thomasson
Posted on 10/07/2003 8:34 AM PDT by Valin

What has been occurring in the California recall debacle may be setting the tone for another round of negativism in next year's presidential and congressional elections. It is nothing new in American politics, but that doesn't make it any less obnoxious. Not surprisingly, unable to convince most voters in their make-believe state that Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger is unqualified to tackle the disaster that is California, Democrats resorted to attacking his character with last-minute accusations ranging from widespread sexual harassment to an affinity for his fellow Austrian, Adolph Hitler.

Where were all those victimized women and allegations of Nazism (and that, of course, is what the Hitler flap is all about) before now? The Democratic National Committee unwisely jumped in and demanded that the bodybuilding actor apologize for allegedly saying 30 years ago that he admired the Fuhrer despite the fact Schwarzenegger has a history of pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into Jewish causes and speaking out for tolerance. He even is said to have helped break up neo-Nazi rallies in Austria....

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Recall Revolt Likely to Fizzle

LewRockwell.com ^ | October 7, 2003 | Steven Greenhut
Posted on 10/07/2003 8:41 AM PDT by logician2u

Recall Revolt Likely to Fizzle
by Steven Greenhut
by Steven Greenhut

The level of anger out there fueled by the recall has become evident in the tone of talk-radio callers and of the messages I've received recently on voicemail and email. Many Californians believe today's election is the last chance to "save" their state from total destruction.

That's a lot of hope to place in the ballot box, given that at the end of the day, the state will still be ruled by a liberal governor (Gray Davis, Cruz Bustamante or Arnold Schwarzenegger), a left-wing Legislature and a host of Democratic statewide office-holders who hold views just to the right of those expressed in Cuba or North Korea.

I can't help but shake my head at the way a real-life voter revolt has morphed into the current mess. What's really astounding is how the state's liberal elites cannot even tolerate the election of a Hollywood Republican. The Democrats, and their allies in the media, have pulled out all the stops to save a universally unloved governor.

It's another reminder to those of us on the Right: If we're going to get bashed, why not get bashed with the real thing? Why not fight the good fight on behalf of someone with principles?

If I believed in conspiracies, I would suggest that the Arnold Schwarzenegger candidacy is part of a big one. What better way to calm down the angry people who pay the taxes and might be fleeing elsewhere than to give them a Republican governor who isn't really a Republican at all? ....

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