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zls44 Donating Member (849 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 09:43 AM
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These are Arnie's Electorate
From the BBC:

"I went to Arnie's last rally in an aircraft hanger for executive jets at San Jose airport. The fact it had been booked by a recall campaign instead of Silicon Valley tycoons parking their Gulfstreams spoke volumes of the parlous state of the Californian economy.

The crowd was a motley array of Arnistas - a true cross-section of one of the most motley corners of America.

There was a white-haired, white granny with a Zimmer frame who told me she admired the body builder because he was strong. Then there was a car mechanic who liked Arnie even more after he was accused of having groped no fewer than 15 women: "At least they were women."

A Mexican immigrant turned up in a two-ton Hummer gas guzzler with a sticker "Red, White and Blue - these colours don't run". The Avon lady, immaculately turned out and brittle as a porcelain doll who I later saw hover expectantly behind Arnie.

And the hardcore feminist who still supported the "grope-amater" despite his wandering hands."


See. Don't get down over it...its not like many Californians took it seriously in the first place!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3173166.stm
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 09:48 AM
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1. Remember.....1/2 of USers have IQs under 100
and we are in a civil war now against their unbridled ignorance.
Another embarassing day for the US..when I think it cannot get any worse, it does.
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zls44 Donating Member (849 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-03 09:51 AM
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2. Not to mention
Edited on Wed Oct-08-03 09:51 AM by zls44
Gary Coleman, Mary Carey, and Larry Flint got, combined, over 30,000 votes.

Imagine filling Madison Square Garden and adding on another 12,000 seats.
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