Drudge: 59% VOTE 'YES' FOR RECALL; 51% SCHWARZENEGGER, 30% FOR BUSTAMANTE, 13% MCCLINTOCK

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[ambrose]

EXIT POLLS SHOW LANDSLIDE: RECALL, SCHWARZENEGGER POISED FOR EASY WIN

[TheBigB]

Schadenfreude-o-rama! :) Tell more, please!!

[xp38]

I posted it fairly early on the recall live thread but with that up to nearly 2000 posts I doubt its being seen much now. Very early soon after Arnold annouced some freeper wit posted Governor...your mansion...give it to me. Then someone pointed out there is no Cal governors mansion in use today. So soon to be governor-elect Schwarzenegger should say to soon to be ex-gov Davis...Governor...your office...give it to me!

[Pubbie]

Did you notice how McClintock didn't go after Schwarzenegger at all in the debates.

[lstanle]

"Ambrose there was a poll that had the recall at 59%....I think it nailed it."

If this number is accurate now, the absentees should push it even higher, WoW!!

[longtermmemmory]

Hopefully the victory will exceed the number of absentee ballots.

[PhiKapMom]

Clinton went into Florida for McBride and could get him to beat Jeb either!

[spokeshave]

Arnold to the legislature and Gil Cedilo...

"I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle."

Love that line....bears repeating....

[pollywog]

Wow. And some people thought McClintock could win.

With a LANDSLIDE he could have IF there had of been conservatives with a BACKBONE............scardi cats!!!

[VU4G10]

[PhiKapMom]

They reported on KFI that absentee ballots have already been counted across the State on their news segment earlier tonight.

[Mo1]

3. Bill and Shrill and the 9 dwarfs come out of this with egg on thier faces for supporting the Davis

They Sure Do!!!

BTW ... Has anyone seen them today???

[concerned about politics]

DUmmies (Denial)- coining a new word...

to Florida (v): to rig or steal an election with massive vote fraud, biased media reporting, and/or endless lawsuits. In all likelyhood, the Republican Machine Florida'd California in the recall election. See: George W. Bush.

I simply refuse to believe Californians are stupid enough to vote for Arnold OR the recall in anything approaching a majority.

It's Bush's fault. LOL!!!

[RogerWilko]

It's gonna be a regular laugh-riot over there tonight! They can't believe that women and the people of CA could be so stupid as to elect Arnold! Man, it's gonna be great when the numbers start coming out if they are anywhere near what these exit polls show! They've been "shocked and awed"!

[cwb]

I don't know if you got a chance to see Mulholland on O'Reilly, but he was "looking" seriously distressd. He went off on a tangent over an internet poll done by Stanford U and the Hoover Institute, that showed Arnold winning. He brought up Herbert Hoover and how he caused the Great Depression and how the Hoover Inst. couldn't be trusted. He attacked everybody including the right-wing media for the recall...and his smirks were so arrogant through the whole interview. Look again, for the democats to blame everybody but themsleves, just as they did after 2002. There are none so blind than those who refuse to see...or however that goes.

[TheBigB]

Fox News just said Tony Snow will be on in a minute with exit poll numbers...don't know if these are the same we're seeing, but it might at least validate them if so.

[vikingchick]

Terry McAwful on Hardball with dem spin: CA voters are angry, just as everybody in the USA is angry, because of George W. Bush. LOL

[Scott from the Left Coast]

but it would have been closer and thus been a smaller "Mandate" for Schwarzenegger

This was a point I was making last week, when it became apparent that the Bustamante campaign was flagging -- due to the strategy shift by the Clinton/McAuliffe/Carville "braintrust" to try and go solely for the "No" on recall vote. Their internals were telling them that great trouble was ahead and Bustamante couldn't move, so they threw everything on saving Davis. It had become certain that Arnold would win Part 2. At that point, where our enemy's strategy shifted, it was important that McClintock stay in the race. His faction simply couldn't accept the social conditions favored by the other 85-90% of Californians. But with him in the race, they would come out and vote "Yes" on part 1 -- and thus help Arnold to a great mandate, by holding down the "Davis" vote.

I have always been an Arnold backer -- but I will say now, like I said last week, that a significant chunk of Arnold's great success tonight (the huge vote on Part 1) can be attributed to McClintock staying in the race and keeping his voters in the race on Part 1. We owe them kudos and respect for that. I'd rather have a reluctant ally than a neutral party.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Some key findings from California voter exit polls

Tuesday, October 7, 2003
©2003 Associated Press

URL: sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/10/07/national2131EDT0815.DTL

(10-07) 18:31 PDT (AP) -- Among preliminary findings of a survey conducted for The Associated Press and other news organizations of Election Day and absentee voters in California's recall election:

* About seven in 10 Election Day voters said they made up their minds more than a month ago on how to vote on the recall.

* Voters were evenly split on whether the recall was a waste of money.

* About two-thirds of all voters said Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't address the issues in enough detail. A third of his own supporters said that.

* Six in 10 voters said their candidate's position on the issues was more important that the candidate's leadership or personal qualities.

* Voters were evenly split on whether California will be able to resolve its budget deficit without raising taxes.

* Fewer than one in 10 Election Day voters reported having problems with voting equipment or the length of the 135-candidate ballot.

* More than half of California voters said they have positive feelings about California's new domestic partners law. Two in 10 called themselves enthusiastic about the law, while at the other end of the emotional spectrum, at least one in 10 said they are angry about it.

* About seven in 10 said state government shouldn't issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

* Most Tom McClintock and Schwarzenegger voters were white, while about a quarter of Cruz Bustamante and Peter Camejo voters were Hispanic.
 

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Results from a partial sample of 2,815 voters, including Election Day interviews at 60 randomly selected precincts statewide and a telephone survey of absentee voters during the past week, was conducted by Edison Media Research of Somerville, N.J., and Mitofsky International of New York City. The sampling error margin was plus or minus 2 percentage points for the full sample, larger for subgroups.

[Cu Roi]

It is racist...defective ballots...I saw all of those "Arnold" signs at the polling station and I went in to vote for my main man from Diff'rent Strokes and wound up voting for some Austrian dude. How was I supposed to know? Now some people from Washington just called me and said that the guy I voted for is a Nazi or something and I should demand a re-vote.