Newsflash: CNN declares Arnold new CA Gov

[mrmitchell]

Gary Coleman had a detailed plan to get California back on track.

Does Ahnold?

[Agathon]

@ Californians, again proving themselves to be the stupidest most celebrity obsessed morons on the planet.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Also keep in mind that some of the last precincts to report in will be those six without the new computerized systems - four counties with high minority populations, and two of the most populous in the state. It should be interesting to see how the final numbers shape up.

[Nubclear]

Heck, Mary Carey had a better plan than Arnie.

B AH!

[Dis]

I seem to remember the 2000 election declaring early that Bush was the winner based on exit polls

and we all know that Bush did not win that election

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Agathon
@ Californians, again proving themselves to be the stupidest most celebrity obsessed morons on the planet.

And the state of California's economic output exceeds Canada's by how much again?

[Dr Strangelove]

This circus has already made me feel better.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by gopher
Why did people vote for him?

I, and many other people, voted for him because he is not Davis. The Democratic party has run this state into the ground and now we want anyone who didn't take part in driving up our taxes to take over. It's that simple.

Davis and Bustamonte drove up energy costs by refusing to allow new power plants until after the energy crisis, they drove up workers comp insurence to the highest level in the industrial world by letting the unions write the laws, they spent us into bankruptcy as they paid off their special interest contributors, they made the state's already poor educational system worse by letting the teacher's unions write rule and avoid accountability, they cut education and social spending so they could give still more money to special interests yet we ended up with the largest deficite in the history of the state, and we're losing jobs by the tens of thousands because Davis has never seen a regulation or a tax which he didn't like.

As things stand we'd vote for satan because at least satan isn't Davis.

[DanS]

Damn.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Agathon
@ Californians, again proving themselves to be the stupidest most celebrity obsessed morons on the planet.

You never fail to amaze me with your stupidity. Yes, everyone in California is so stupid and that's why we make the highest per capita income of any industrialized society on Earth. That's why millions of people come here each year and that's why a tremendous portion of the world's new technologies are invented here. It most certainly is also why we have the hands down best public university system on Earth and we're so stupid we've even rejected your much loved, if failed, communist ideology.

Then again maybe we're not the stupid ones and you are.

[Ming]

Would you people chill...

Let's stop the personal insults...

[ixnay]

I will laugh when it becomes apparent in a few months that Arnold is not going to be any more able to fix the problems in CA than Davis was.

Also, it looks like "being a cast member in Predator" seems to be a good first step towards being elected as a governor.

[Dr Strangelove]

I thought that the problem with California's energy was deregulation, which the previous governor passed. By allowing middle men to reduce the profits of energy producers deregualtion reduced the incentive to build new power plants.

Who passed the deregulation of the energy industry?

[Berzerker]

Anyway, I think this was a good thing. Turnout was very heavy, so a large majority of registered voters expressed their opinion on the matter. There's no better occurence in a democracy.

I heard the turn-out for the last election was low and this time much, much higher. And yet I hear opponents of the recall argue this was "undemocratic". Huh?

[Agathon]

Originally posted by ixnay
I will laugh when it becomes apparent in a few months that Arnold is not going to be any more able to fix the problems in CA than Davis was.

Also, it looks like "being a cast member in Predator" seems to be a good first step towards being elected as a governor.

Yeah, ridiculous isn't it. At least McClintock had some political credibility. I was secretly hoping that Arnie would win. I mean when one ignorant, totally incompetent, corrupt individual with a shady background manages to get elected to high office without saying anything of substance it's perhaps an accident.

Two is a trend!!!

I'm glad this has no effect on my life. Or perhaps it will. I hear that Arnie wants to stop Hollywood making movies in Canada. This means I won't have to continually walk around snotty arsed film crews at uni, which is a definite plus to me.