Bush and Arnold: Minorities in Office

[stoystown]

Arnold got 48 percent of the vote. So did Bush.

The people of California now suffer under a Republican governor who was elected with a minority of the vote, and a Republican president who was installed with a mintority of the vote.

I guess Republicans really do like minorities.

[joefree1]

1. Davis actually got more votes then Arnold but still lost

Why does this all seem so familiar?

Get over it? I don't think so.

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[Frodo]

3. No he didn't.

"No" on recall got 3,476,841 with better than 98% of precincts reporting... Arnold got 3,552,787. Because the same number of people didn't vote on each question, the percentages are further off - Davis 45% A.S. 48%.

The absentees are more likely to worsen it than improve it.

Jerry Springer tried to make this spin last night and Chris Matthews let him dig himself a hole. I prefer the "This shows how mad people are at Bush's economy - the Republicans in power are next"

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. And Arnold got more votes this time than Davis did in 2002

Face it, the reason Davis was reelected in 2002 was not that voters liked him. They just disliked his opponent more.

[Frodo]

2. We need new spin on this. It won't fly.

48% IS less than 50%, true. But getting 48% out of 135 "candidates" is not easy to spin. Clinton never got 50%, was he illegitimate?

And he got more votes than Davis did, and (if the turnout prediction are correct), more votes than Davis got when he was elected.

We had planned to run a "more people voted for Davis than Arnold... why is he Governor?" line... there might have even been grounds for a legal challenge. But not now.