The recall is NOT OVER YET.

[Josh]

I've been seeing far too many threads where people have all but accepted the media-driven decree that Schwarzenegger is California's new governor. There's only one poll that indicates such a massive blowup in his favour. All the others, including McClintok's internal polling, put him and Bustamante in a statistical deadheat and they put Davis within five or six points of DEFEATING THE RECALL OUTRIGHT.

Exhort your friends and family and loved ones and enemies to VOTE. Get everyone you know to the polls, because this thing is not over yet. It is not over by far. And victory can still be achieved.

After reading this little thread by me, don't just smile and go, "Maybe he's right..." GET ON THE PHONE. Call people you know may not show up and get them to vote. Call your family members. Tell them how important it is to defeat the recall for the sake of American democracy. Even failing that, show them the risks of having this neophyte puppet as their governor.

This is a call to action.

READ THIS - THEN DO SOMETHING.

DO SOMETHING NOW.

[Closer]

1. This IS a call to action!!!

THANK YOU for the rallying cry Josh!

[Ediacara]

2. I am glad I am not the only one who questioned that poll

it seemed like pure BS to me.

California DUers, keep on fighting!

[papau]

5. Cook says Arnold ahead by 3, yes on recall at 51%

While the Gallup Poll is normally reliable, strategists in both parties are scoffing at a Gallup Poll in California that showed the 'yes' position on the recall of Gov. Gray Davis registering a whopping 63 percent. Private polling by both Democratic and Republican pollsters shows something quite different. In those polls, 'yes' runs between 51 percent and 53 percent and, on the replacement ballot question, Republican actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is usually ahead of Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante by three to four points. The Gallup Poll, taken for CNN and USA Today, gave Schwarzenegger 40 percent of the vote among likely voters, while Bustamante had 25 percent. In short, the 'yes' side and Schwarzenegger have the edge, but not nearly by the margins that Gallup reports in its survey of 787 registered voters last Thursday through Saturday. The error margin was 4 points.

[Ediacara]

7. the problem with the gallup

as mentioned in another thread, is that gallup produced a sample with 49.2% Republicans. Republicans DO NOT count as 49.2% of California voters, and Republicans WILL NOT account for 49.2% of the voters next week.

[Josh]

3. I'll just keep kicking it to the top...

Remember the message:

Make a phone call.

Talk to an undecided voter.

Convince people who aren't voting to get out there on October 7 and support Davis and Cruz.

DO SOMETHING.

DO SOMETHING.

DO SOMETHING.

[Hippo_Tron]

4. I think if we get our turnout...

Bustamante is a definite. I really wish we could delay the recall until March, cause Ah-Nuld would either loose enthusiasm by then or say something stupid. Recall itself seems like a 50/50.

[jiacinto]

6. Well

Whoever gets their people out will win this race.

[blm]

8. Bump.

great post Josh.

[mandyky]

9. I have no faith in "their" poll numbers

I am so sick of having Arnold pushed on us, too. I hope when the important poll is tallied he loses and loses badly.

That said I don't much like Davis, but since I don't live in CA, it is not my business. What is my business is that the GOP keeps up these dirty tricks like recalls and redistricting.

[0007]

10. California knows this is a BS poll

Davis will stay