[cyncooper]

The latest numbers from the California Secretary of State website at 5:19 am Pacific Time shows Governor elect Arnold Schwarzenegger with 3,476,301 votes. This passes Gray Davis' vote count of 3,469,025 from the 2002 election.

This should add to the "legitimacy" of the election. Arnold also owns 47.9% of the vote as compared to 47.4% for Gray last November.

Then redheaded John on MSNBC was using old numbers since the first thing I saw on tv this morning about an hour after your post time, was John showing Arnold had less votes (so far, I should note, but why the hell was he comparing them if not to "send a message") than Davis had gotten last time.

He did show 97% reporting in. And redheaded John is usually very good so now I'm perplexed with him pulling this number stunt.

[prairiebreeze]

I'll pose this question here instead of a vanity post, to see what the opinions are of California Freepers and Recall Thread posters.

Now that Davis is out and Arnold is in (by significant percentages) what's your opinion of how this will impact Hillary's decision about a possible Presidency run in '04? Or even in '08 for that matter?

It's obvious that Bill Clinton endorsements are not an asset for Dimocrapic hopefuls or hangers-on. In fact they could be viewed as a liability. So, does that same handicap also extend to Hillary now? Will her Heinous decide Bill has too much baggage for her to carry and divorce him before any run?

The Beest and her keepers have to be sweating bullets about the Arnold win. They may even have to concede the backlash effect of the Times smears. What is likely to be their next tactic and what will be their methods?

Prairie