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This election depends on turnout.

You have, on the one hand, the dependable pickpockets, the folks who vote for a living. They'll vote.

You have the senior citizens, scared out of their wits that their social security checks will be torn up by eeeevil Republicans. They'll vote.

You have the committed Leftist True Believers: the Malibu liberals, for example. These folks might be torn between the scandalous Gray Davis and what they perceive as the honorable, principled Green Camejo. A Martin Sheen endorsement speaks directly to this crowd. Smart move on Davis' part. They'll vote.

You have the single-issue types. They'll vote, most often to block any candidate from taking office who believes it's a not-good thing that about half of all pregnancies end in the slaughter of the fetus, no matter if the candidate could have any influence on the practice or not. They'll vote.

A few folks will find all the candidates impure on some single-issue or another. They won't vote.

Then you have the true RINOs. They might sit out this election, peeved and petulant that an actual [spit] conservative offed the party's rightful nominee. They won't vote.

You have the Jones Republicans, still smarting that their guy didn't do better against a political novice. They might not vote.

You have the Silent Majority... folks who are turned-off of the whole process and a huge segment of the potential electorate (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/763653/posts --"The Myth of the Middling Non-Participant"). Thanks to Davis' relentless assaults, the Simon campaign's ineffectiveness, and general ill-informedness, they might not vote. I've actually had people from this category say, "I can't vote for Simon after such an inept campaign"... as though being a slick politician is a good thing! For folks like that, I give you Bill Clinton. Enough said.

Finally you have the conservative base--people like you and me. We got fired up about Simon (especially versus RINO Richard Riordan and tax-hiking Bill Jones) and nominated him, holding Riordan to a single county! But the Left's divide-and-conquer strategy of wearing us down has been very effective.

Will we vote?

Will you?

The outcome of this election is in our hands, gang.

Get out the vote!