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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Vendit™ who wrote (71)	10/25/2000 12:20:02 AM
From: Cisco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

"If George Bush wants to come in here and waste his time and do head fakes, that's his option," California Gov. Gray Davis' senior political advisor, Garry South, told the Boston Globe in July. "The bottom line is, he's not going to carry California. This is all a little scam they're running. Nobody should confuse it with reality." But South is now changing his tune. Speaking to reporters at the Sacramento Press Club last week, South acknowledged the race was tightening, and implored the Gore campaign to send the candidate or President Clinton out to rally the troops. South told Salon on Friday: "The Republicans are spending millions out here, and this race is closing down from a double-digit spread." While Gore still leads Bush in California, South noted, the rising Republican tide in the state could ultimately cost the Democrats congressional seats in close races. "If we're not going to get the candidate out here again, then we need Bill Clinton," he said. So over the weekend, South said, Davis contacted Clinton and asked for his help directly, without going through the Gore campaign (he is its California chair). Davis "chatted with him at length about the end game in California," the advisor said. "There's nobody who knows how to close better in a campaign than Bill Clinton. He did it in '92 and '96, and he helped do it for Democrats in 1998, when he wasn't even on the ballot." South said he expects Clinton to rally the base -- read: African Americans and Latinos -- in Oakland and the East San Francisco Bay Area, as well as South and East Los Angeles, where there are large African-American and Latino populations. salon.com