DEMOCRACY:
Government & Politics | September 23, 2003
MAKING
SENSE
OF
THE
CALIFORNIA
RECALL
FIASCO
An
E-Mail to Democratic
Activists
Curiouser
and curiouser. We're DEFINITELY "through the looking
glass"...
...unless
Davis pulls off a miracle come-back (and that's not entirely out
of the question), the race seems to be in the hands of the
McClintock voters (God help us) -- if, say, a quarter of them
decide to not waste their vote on Tom, Arnold could beat Cruz.
This
is playing out just like a Parliamentary election, as in Britain
or Israel. Davis is the Prime Minister trying to survive a
vote of "no confidence", Cruz is the replacement
leader of the Labor Party, Arnold is the leader of the Likud
Party, and McClintock is the leader of some ultra-Orthodox party
-- able to use its leverage as either the spoiler or the
power-broker to wrest conciliations from the less extreme
right-wing party.
With
all due respect to our allies overseas, I thought this was
supposed to be America.
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