[lbo-talk] Fwd: [TD] Tomgram: Mike Davis on Schwarzenegger's victory

Curtiss Leung curtiss_leung at ibi.com
Fri Oct 10 12:53:57 PDT 2003


No income pattern to the "Yes Recall" vote, but wasn't Davis talking about the Schwarzenegger vote? And the table shows that it does rise with income level.

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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