[WoofDog123]

I noticed the same comments on cnbc today, presumably this is a ratings play, as you suggest. I don't think there is much doubt scwartz. is going to win

[smadurski]

just wait for the aftermath of this recall. If davis does get thrown out I bet there will be lawsuits out the ears from our friends on the left.

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[Argus]

You're absolutely right, not just because of tonight's ratings, but to portray Arnold as "illegitimate" and "selected, not elected", and the whole affair as a power grab by the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy. The usual litany.

[ambrose]

The late polls, including internals, showed a steep and rapid drop in the recall numbers after the LA Slimes story. It could be VERY close.

[moodyskeptic]

Good cover for election fraud. Remember the Florida Effect? Elite media have their marching orders.

[IncPen]

For you...

[.cnI redruM]

Very true. I hope Arnold makes it look about as close as the Tampa Bay - Oakland Superbowl game.

[b9]

From exit polls to certification...
room for fraud participation.
Might be closer than we think...
Davis' tactics really stink.

[dogbyte12]

The print press wants Gray Davis to stay, the tv press wants Arnold to win in a squeaker. Seriously. Even the dems in the tv stations want Arnold to win. They will actually keep reporters in Sacramento for the first time in decades with "the terminator" in the state house.

People outside of California do need to realize that vapidness trumps ideology of media members here. They are more stupid than they are liberal (which they are as well).

The print media on the other hand, who knows they are mostly irrelevant are hardcore leftists.

[finnman69]

I just posted this...it does not sounds like a nailbiter to me...

Davis' fate in voters' hands - Influx of young, occasional voters favors Schwarzenegger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996847/posts

Mark Simon, Chronicle Political Writer Tuesday, October 7, 2003

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/07/VOTERS.TMP

California's historic and frenzied recall campaign reaches the finish line today with an estimated 10 million voters expected to determine if Gov. Gray Davis will serve out the rest of his second term or be replaced by one of 135 other candidates.

The estimated turnout -- including 2.1 million absentee voters who already have cast their ballots -- would be 30 percent higher than the 7.7 million who voted 11 months ago in the 2002 election, when Davis was re-elected, said Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll. Field issued the projection Monday.

The boost in participation is likely to come from younger, occasional voters drawn to the polls by Republican actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that could mean trouble for Davis, said DiCamillo.

Historically, a high voter turnout favors Democrats, but in this election, with 400,000 new registered voters, many of the participants are "occasional voters, those voters who have been aroused by this election," DiCamillo said.

Seventy percent of those new, younger voters are for the recall "and are very much causing trouble for the governor," DiCamillo said. "They're less likely to be risk-averse and much more willing to upset the apple cart and change the status quo."

[A CA Guy]

Don't know about a nail biter, but voting is heavy and there was even somebody right out of the hospital in their gown with a decathiter in line to vote...DETERMINED TO VOTE.

[Paladin2b]

BR>
You can bet the rent on that, thanks to the hig turnout being reported. To paraphrase something that P.J. O'Rourke said when he observed the 1990 elections in Nicaraugua that threw out the Sandinistas, people do not stand around in line for hours to vote for the status quo. And the status quo is Gray Davis and the Democrats.

[Bud Bundy]

Just keep track of what the polls said last night, and what the results of the election are today. Then, as usual, we'll be reminded how amazingly useless it is to think that asking 500 people some biased questions is any indicator of what tens of millions are thinking.

[LS]

Just spoke to a woman who is a big in Arnold's southern CA campaign. She says that despite the polls showing recall winning and Arnold winning, there is great consternation that the unions/education lobbies will get out the vote, and that people (especially the young) who support Arnold simply don't vote.

[Califelephant]

Of course the media wants a close election. A nailbiter is better for ratings than a blowout. It's no different than a Super Bowl game -- if it's a blowout, viewers turn off the TV.

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[CyberAnt]

FOX reported earlier that Davis has planned to address the media at about 8:30.

Either the dems are up to something nasty, or their exit polling is disastrous!