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[goldstategop]

I agree. Conservatives can win not by sacrificing their message but by skillfully shaping it to attract those who don't agree with us on everything. Most Californians want a fiscally responsible government that leaves the morality police out of their bedrooms. If we take advantage of this reality, we can relegate the Democrats here to long term minority status. Now THAT is what I would call a political earthquake.

[chicagolady]

Ahnold! Ahnold!

[sandpit]

OK, so when does the rioting begin, egged on by Jesse "dat my baby daddy" Jackson?

[backtothestreets]

Commentary:

I watched Davis give his concession speech. There were 18 people around him. With Davis were his wife, his two sisters, and his brother. Of the remaining 13, nine were members of various minorities. That's nearly three-quarters of those in the picture. It was representative of the campaigns Davis and Bustamante ran.

Would it be too bold to say the Democrats have abandoned the majority of Californians?

I've nothing against minorities, but when their inclusion means the exclusion of the majority, there can only be one outcome.

It seems the message the Democrats deliver is "There are people with lots of money, and if you vote for me, I'll give you some of it".

I hope Democrats and progressives throughout the country watched our California Recall results. I hope it helps direct the party to a position that is beneficial to all, and not one group at the expense of another.

[William McKinley]

It would be a mistake for the Republicans to think that Arnold has shown a magic formula which can be replicated elsewhere.

Schwarzenegger had some unique characteristics which helped him overcome things.

There is only one Terminator.

[alwaysconservative]

Bump! Thanks for posting this! Horowitz was wrong about one thing, though, when he bought into the "Cruz as the first Latino governor" crap without remembering Romualdo Pacheco, a REPUBLICAN, was the first Latino governor, 120 years ago!

[Savage Beast]

David, I hope you're right.

"The big losers in this election were California liberals..."

Yes, this is the most important significance of the earthquake--a repudiation of the irresponsible, destructive, self-serving policies of the Democrat politicians and their supporters. The Democrat Party has become the party of socialism, and, if California voters have had an epiphany, it is the realization that socialism requires a powerful, oppressive, tyrranical government and inevitably undermines the economy and leads to economic disaster.

"...the politics of personal destruction..."

Yes, it was so blatant that only those in hard-core denial could possibly not see it (but: "Never underestimate the power of denial." ~American Beauty).

"...the myth that the press is not in bed with the Democrats..."

Ditto.

...and the image of Republicans as mean-spirited morality police."

Right. The Republican Party has a strong libertarian current. The Republican Party is the party of individual freedom.

"thirty percent of Hispanics...voted for the Republican"

Hispanics tend to be good citizens. They are welcome in the U.S. The problem is not Hispanics. The problem is that we should either enforce immigration laws or change them. In fact, this can be said of all laws.

[aristeides]

A charismatic Republican candidate who embodies the big tent aspirations of the Republican center but resonates with its conservative base can point the way to a Republican governing majority for the foreseeable American future. And that’s something to think about.

A Rudy Giuliani presidential run in '08?

[VRWC_minion]

Come on. Everyone knows this was a big loss for Bush.

[Swanks]

Mulholland told Fox this has the makings of a catastophie for the Republicans. Britt Hume asked him if he meant the fact that 60% of the votes went Republican in a heavy Rat state = trouble for Bush?

"Yes" . Here's one dilusional dude.

[1Old Pro]

CONCLUSIONS CAN BE DRAWN FROM THE CALIFORNIA RECALL ELECTION:

1) The Democrat Party has been steadily imploding. The withering on the vine of the Democrat Party can be traced to the Congressional elections of 1994 - no wonder that hated Newt Gingrich.

2) Republicans got about 3 out of every 5 votes in a very liberal California and the tax and spend Democrat Davis was booted from office by a massive turnout of voters.

3) Take a look at the Democrat Presidential candidates, could there be a weaker field? I don't think so.

4) HOPEFULLY the GOP Senate will see this obvious trend and get tough on the foolish Democrats and their silly obstructionist tactics. Republicans should now be emboldened and they should govern like conservative Republicans.

5) President Bush is doing a fine job, he'll handily win re-election, he can be comfortable in pushing his conservative programs and he should definately fight hard to put conservative judges on the Supreme Court to fill any upcoming vacancies.

[GOPJ]

Complete humilation:

...the Democratic Party threw all its big guns into the state including all its presidential candidates, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Jesse Jackson. Thirty-nine percent of union households voted for the Republican and thirty percent of Hispanics – despite the fact the Democrat Bustamante would have been the first Hispanic governor in history if he had won.

[Gal.5:1]

The liberals are definitely annoyed today!

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>Arnold has created a new Republican coalition that has raised the Republican Party from the dead and produced an electoral landslide in the process. In a state which Republicans lost by a million votes in the last presidential election (without the Democrats having to spend a penny in the state) the combined Republican vote may have exceeded 60 percent -- an electoral landslide.

Trump that, Dr. Dean.....

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Arnold simply tapped into an old political playbook: "Do no harm" (do not scare those who are easily frightened), consistently bring an upbeat, positive message and attract the Independents and those on the middle edges of your base and your opponent's base. He found those "Reagan" Democrats again (18% of registered Democrats voted for him yesterday)

As populations become more urban and the politics more evenly divided (which is a great gain in California, where they had not been divided for at least a decade), this tactic becomes more and more critical to victory. When you can get 55% of the Independents (a polar swing in California, where prior to yesterday the Indies were 55-45 the other way for a decade) and take 18% of your opposition's vote from him, you simply cannot lose.

In many states of the south or great plains or mountain west, such strategies as this are not necessary. In the more urbanized states of the east, Great Lakes and on the very wacky west coast, this is how you win.

Now Arnold must cut some unpopular taxes and relieve some unpopular business burdens to seal the deal in California. And it wouldn't be too terribly surprising to see the voters in Washington and Oregon take notice if California gets its act together. These two other west coast states are only a half-step behind California on the path to the big cliff.

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[finnman69]

Awesome. And despite the typical patrhtic predictable spin from the Terry McAuliffes and the Bob Mullhollands, this was a HUGE win for the GOP and HUGE defeat for the RATS as detailed above.

[blackie]

David Horowitz really nails it!