What's tough (for me at least) to figure is those who voted "No Recall" and then voted Schwarzenegger. Last I looked, Bustamente's vote amounted to slightly less than 70% of the "No Recall" vote. Schwarzenegger + McClintock's vote *exceeded* the total "Yes Recall" Vote, so you have to have some "No Recall" votes for them. I understand Bustamente was perceived to be left of Davis on fiscal policy, and that there was the notion that Arnuld was someone who combined liberalism on social issues with a conservative fiscal stance--aside: how can you even be liberal if you don't count economic inequity as a harm to be redressed?--but that's only part of it.
-- Curtiss
> Here are the exit poll figures (Carrol, skip this part), from the LA
> Times
>
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pagea26topper9oct09155420,1,132
5715.story>.
>>No income pattern to the "yes" vote at all.
Annual household income
% of recall
voters yes no Arnie Busta McClint Less than $20,000 8 52 48 40 38 14 $20,000 to $39,999 15 53 47 40 37 16 $40,000 to $59,999 16 56 44 46 34 13 $60,000 to $74,999 15 52 48 46 33 15 $75,000 or more 46 55 45 53 30 11
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