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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (29724)	10/8/2003 12:15:16 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

Networks project Davis recalled, Schwarzenegger in Carla Marinucci and John Wildermuth, Chronicle Political Writers Wednesday, October 8, 2003 www.sfgate.com Seconds after the polls closed at 8 p.m., TV networks predicted that Californians voted unequivocally to recall Gov. Gray Davis and replace him with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a resounding vote of no confidence in the state's political order. The size of Schwarzenegger's victory, after months of fluctuating polls, legal uncertainties and voter confusion, exceeded even his own campaign's expectations and offered the actor the unexpected opportunity for a mandate when he arrives in Sacramento next month, the networks said, citing exit polls. The Bay Area appeared to be the only region of the state that did not vote to oust Davis. Accusations of Schwarzenegger's crude behavior toward women which dominated the final days of the campaign, did not appear to damage his support among women voters, who supported him nearly as much as men, according to exit polls. It is the first time California has ever recalled a governor, and only the second time in the nation's history that a state's chief executive had been voted out of office in the middle of his term. Schwarzenneger, who announced his candidacy on the Jay Leno Show exactly two months ago, was running well ahead of Cruz Bustamante, the most prominent Democrat in the pack of 133 candidates to replace Davis. The recall is a stunning rebuke to Davis, who served in state government since he was Gov. Jerry Brown's chief of staff in the mid-1970s, served three terms to the California Assembly, and four times to statewide office, including twice as Governor.