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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 12:56 AM
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11. That's the basics
I never had 1% hope for this race. I see all the criticism about Angelides but I'm certain any of our nominees would have been swamped. In fact, I'm still kicking myself for not wagering on Arnold on Tradesports a few months ago. There were some contracts offered at 60 but I was greedy and sure enough the numbers soared to the 90+ range.

There were exit polls in '03 indicating Arnold brought a surreal number of people to the polls to vote enthusiastically for him, not merely against Gray Davis. Once I saw that I gave up on '06. Something like that with the celebrity backdrop is not going to evaporate. If we had caught the perfect election timing late last fall I'm sure it would have been much closer, but of course Arnold would have played things differently if the vote had been coming up at that point.
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