Posted on 09/27/2003 8:37:49 PM PDT by ambrose
"Mom, HE started it!"
EV it will not calm down because whether people admit it or not, politics is a true religion to some and a sporting event to others. McClintock will change nothing in California even if he is elected and neither will Arnold. The same can be said for the entire country. Bush is excoriated for his "big spending ways". The sad fact is, that until the money runs out it will be spent and then they will borrow more to spend. It doesn't matter one iota if it is a conservative or a liberal other than the fact that a conservative will spend it slower. Big Government is here to stay until there is no more money to borrow.
You're proving just how juvenile you are; not, as you wrongly assume, anything at all about me. Just keep right on digging that hole and while you're at it,could you at least answer a few of my previously asked queries ?
Which ones?
As to these particular numbers, conventional wisdom is that undecideds break against the incumbent, which means that anytime an incumbent is below 50% just before the election, he's in big trouble. In this case, Davis is trailing 53-41, with 6% undecided. He would not just have to buck the usual pattern (where the majority of the undecideds wind up voting against the incumbent); he would have to pick up every last one of the undecideds, and somehow persuade at least 3% of those already planning to vote "yes" to change their minds. I'm not saying it can't happen; just that it's not the way to bet -- especially now that Schwarzenegger seems to have satisfied people by his debate appearance that he is fit to govern.
Your question about how one would know the dem strategy was very strange.
The whole thing has boiled down to a strategy of trying to tie Arnold to right wing extremism and Bush and pit that vs Davis.
The Republicans knew this and let it hamper them. Jim Brulte officially took no side or stance on recall just for this reason. Yet even with this the dems screamed how Brulte was corrdinating it on behalf of the Whitehouse.
Now Brulte has endorsed Schwarzenegger. The dem playbook has been manifested finally.
Will it fly? Hard to say. It worked well with Simon, but he was cheez whiz.
It's all very strange but I see it as a turf war more than a war between left and right.
Here's one:
I don't like RINO's. I detest them. If California wants a liberal as its governor, it should have Bustamonte.
My real choice would be Diane Fienstein. She isn't running, but I think she would actually be a good governor.
If the state wants to trash itself, let it go ahead.
My conversations, with family & friends, didn't contain such info.
That's my pick for quote of the day.
If you have a question, just ask it. It's 3:45 am here, and I'm going off to bed before I'm going to go rereading this whole thread. ;-)
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