An extremist candidate with a strong core of support could conceivably win, despite lacking a broad base.ĭan Walters, dean of California columnists, has glimpsed just such a possibility for this gubernatorial recall. With so many candidates, the election becomes a crapshoot with numerous spoiler candidates and massive vote-splitting among like-minded voters. In 2003, after Schwarzenegger the next highest candidate had only 31%. The winner of the replacement contest is the highest vote getter, even if that candidate wins far less than a majority. The second part will ask voters to pick a replacement, if the recall succeeds. The first part of the recall ballot will ask voters whether they want to eject Newsom. What’s really hair-raising about the recall is the poorly designed process dictated by the state Constitution. A Los Angeles Times poll six weeks before the election found support slipping for recalling Davis. Yet that’s what early poll numbers suggested in 2003 as well. And the latest poll numbers indicate that Newsom will survive this recall. Davis was thrown off the Survivor Island in a rather bizarre episode of reality TV.Ĭonventional wisdom says that won’t happen again.
Liberal election meltdown movie#
The winning candidate, movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, had less than 50% of the vote, which means that more voters preferred someone else. Gray Davis, including movie stars, a porn star, a pornographer, recovering politicians and wannabes. In that wildest of Wild West elections, there were 135 candidates running to replace Gov. The gubernatorial recall in 2003 that struck California like an earthquake seems like ancient history, so here is a quick recap in a bid to help California do it better than the last time.
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