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Politics : IMPEACH GRAY DAVIS! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (718)	8/9/2003 11:08:05 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1641

I can’t understand why Governor Davis doesn’t at least nominate a protest candidate...That candidate would promise not to run for reelection — or for any office in California, since no one should benefit politically from a constitutional mistake — but would hold the governorship “in trust” until we have another election where the candidate with the most votes wins. In other words, Lessig's "protest candidate" would be a lame duck for three years. Three more years of chaos. Not good. I am just guessing, but I suspect that, assuming that Davis is recalled, the winning candidate will garner at least 25-30% of the vote. Clinton managed to govern eight years without ever winning a majority. The winner might get a bit of a honeymoon period given that the people of California will probably need a breather. ...many believe that Nixon made essentially this choice when he refused to fight the results in Illinois and thus let Kennedy become President. While Daley did steal Illinois for Kennedy in 1960, it was not the singular reason that Kennedy won. While Kennedy won the popular vote by only 114,000 votes, the electoral totals were 302 Kennedy, 219 Nixon. Nixon would have needed to pick up both Illinois and Texas in order to win.