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Wednesday, October 8, 2003
The FALL SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE is here! If you subscribed last Fall (not this past Winter) it's time. If you've never subscribed it's really time. In any event, go to the FALL SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE page and see what it's all about.
Return with us now to the Fall of 1998 when your Mullmeister was just about everywhere - in print, on the Internet, doing radio and TV interviews, standing on street corners, button-holing people in the produce department at the Safeway - guaranteeing that Republicans would pick up 10-12 seats in U.S. House during the midterm elections that year.
We lost a net five seats, we felt lucky to escape with our small majority, and it cost Newt his job.
Dear Mr. Mullings: So it was YOUR fault? And it's taken all this time for you to come clean? What do you have to say for yourself?
Signed, The Former Staff of GOPAC
As a result of that modest miscalculation, I now tend to add the caveat: "There's a reason they actually hold the elections."
Nevertheless, when I went to California in mid-September I wrote that I was pretty sure Arnold would win. After the debate two weeks ago, I wrote that I was certain of it.
Whew!
In the election against Bill Simon last fall, Gray Davis got about 3.5 million votes. If the exit polling is correct, by getting approximately 51% of the large turnout last night, Arnold will have generated well over FOUR million votes in a 135-way race.
So, a half million more Californians voted for Arnold yesterday than voted for Davis last November.
And, if you add Arnold's 51% to McClintock's 13%, the Republican side of the ledger generated some 64% of the votes cast.
The nonsense the press and the Dems have been feeding us since last spring that Davis might be replaced by someone with only 18-20 percent of the vote turned out to be, in the words of the sainted Sherman Potter, horse hockey.
Notwithstanding the lawsuits (which are certain to be filed by Gray Davis, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Governors' Association, a class-action suit by the other 134 candidates, and a novel suit instituted by the Left Wing members of the United Federation of Planets) Arnold will be sworn in as Governor.
Democrats will look foolish by launching an attempt to recall Arnold. But they'll do it. And they will fail.
A significant portion of California's deficit will be fixed by a growing economy. Just as California was hit very hard by the economic downturn, it will be helped more than most other states by the economic recovery. Arnold will be the Governor as the people of California begin to feel better about their future.
The scale of this win means Schwarzenegger will be The Man in California. He will be The Man on the policy side in Sacramento; and he will be The Man on the political side.
For its part, the California Republican Party, which has been split between Moderates and Conservatives for the better part of a decade, will be under the actual, if not legal, control of the Schwarzenegger team.
The scale of this win means Schwarzenegger will be The Man in California. He will be The Man on the policy side in Sacramento; and he will be The Man on the political side.
With Arnold calling the shots, the California GOP will use the next 13 months to establish a political infrastructure ahead of the 2004 elections. That infrastructure might not necessarily mean that George W. Bush will win California next year, but it absolutely means the Democrats have to defend California next year.
The Dems had planned to spend about a dollar ninety-three to win California's 55 Electoral votes. Now they will have to spend perhaps $15 million.
There is a finite amount of money available for the general election campaign, so those additional expenditures will have to come out of money which had been allocated to Florida, or Missouri, or some other combination of the toss-up states.
This was not a small matter. This was a big, big deal.
On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: A link to the Fall Subscription page, a good Mullfoto, and an odd Catchy Caption of the Day.
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