California Recall Live Thread

[Sabertooth]

Do it California. Post here.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Jesse was really mad. Maybe some Florida judge will issue an order setting this recall aside. Rumor has it that Broward and Dade County voters were turned away at the polls, especially when they announced that they were there to vote out that Arnold guy......

[ThinkDifferent]

"This is a dramatic victory"...these guys are *hilarious*.

[Fledermaus]

Oh well, one can wish! :-)

[nutmeg]

He's claiming VICTORY on Prop. 54. Crowd is going "wild". LOL!

I think I'm gonna BARF, listening to this crap!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Here ya go.

2003 California Statewide Special Election
Shall Gray Davis be recalled?

[southernnorthcarolina]

THIS IS A MANDATE.

In many elections, "a win is a win" -- it's not terribly important whether you win by 2% or 6%. That's not the case here. BIG wins on the recall question and on the election were of vital importance.

If the recall had passed 51-49, and Arnold had edged Bustamante 37-36 (and don't forget, some news outlets were saying "too close to call" over last weekend), all Hell would be breaking loose. Idiotic suits by Jesse and others alleging insufficient voting accommodations, confusing ballots, and "disenfranchisement" may still happen, of course, but they've had the legs cut out from under them. Ditto for stonewalling and obstruction by Dems in the Legislature. And the same for the already-threatened "Recall Arnold" movement.

Even with substantially fewer votes in the Gubernatorial election than in the recall vote, and even given the fragmentation of the Gubernatorial vote, Schwarzenegger will rack up substantially more votes than "No" received in the recall question. Thus Davis's backers can make NO plausible case that he garnered more votes than Arnold, however indirectly.

[pulaskibush]

Prop 54- 56.3/43.7 for NO.

That is his great victory? It does look dead, but not by the landslide he claims.

If it passes, it would be awsome.

[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you for the comment. I was out of the house, and only started on this thread an hour ago. With the help of a lot of FReepers, I hope I can have the same sort of success in North Carolina.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Two Degrees of Separation and a Double Sawbuck," discussion thread on FR. IF YOU WANT A FREEPER IN CONGRESS, CLICK HERE.

[The KG9 Kid]

FOX cameraman at the BustaMECHA concession told someone to stop interfering, and a woman's voice replied 'F--- You'.

[You Dirty Rats]

So according to Jesse, voter turnout will be way down?

[Chad Fairbanks]

And they're going to "have something to say about the recall later"???

Hell, it'll be a decade or more befoer they shut up about it... "FLORIDA! CALIFORNIA! RIGHT-WING COUPS!" heh heh heh

[Tamzee]

Thank you all so much for the help and the warm words for my daughter... she is pleased as pie because she gets to miss school tomorrow :-)

And congrats to California and Arnold!!!!!

What a wonderful victory!

[BlessedByLiberty]

I love that most impt issue wasn't the governorship but PROP 54!

[Fraulein]

He finally shut up about the recall and started talking about his large new tattoo.

[Jaded]

Geraldo is really hard up to be equating raping and groping.

Cruz is thanking the indians. Hmmmm.

[Dan from Michigan]

16.5% IN

Larry Flynt - 0.2%

Prop 53
Yes - 34.6%
NO - 65.4

Prop 54 (DAMNIT!)

Yes - 43.8%
No - 56.2%

[Cboldt]

Of course they'll have something to say. That's all they do, talk.

In hindsight, I wonder if Prop 54 could have passed: in the alternative, and executive proclamation to the same effect would be grand!

[SoCal Pubbie]

By the way, by design or happenstance, I think Arnold did a brilliant thing by flirting with running last year, then pulling out. It allowed the "bimbo eruptions" to come out early and soften the blow, so that they had little effect now. Clintonian, I know, but that's the facts.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Its much more easier to bear now that we know he lost. Like listening to the wicked witch of the west scream as she is melted...

[TomGuy]

"Reverend" Jackson is on CNN.

Even Wolfe B couldn't understand Jesse's rambling, and seemed relieved that Bustamante came on to make a speech. That gave Wolfe the opportunity to cut Jesse's ramblings off. lol.