WHAT DID GRAY DAVIS LEARN?
The turnout last night for the California Election was 70% or more. That is amazing when you consider that Presidential elections these days get about 50-55% of the people to the polls. For years we've heard that an indifferent electorate is the ruination of democracy, usually from the people so hell bent on keeping Gray Davis in office. This election proves what so many foreign elections with unstable governments and large turnouts have proven in the past. A great many people will not bother going to the polls if they feel their lives won't change all that much either way. But in a state like California that is getting uninhabitable with taxes and welfare programs for illegal aliens, the people will stand up and be heard if you treat them poorly enough. Too many people who are tolerant of individual behavior have been afraid to vote for conservatives, because of social issues. Their vote for Gray Davis wasn’t supposed to be a wholesale giveaway mandate, but a live and let live outlook. Davis proved that you can win the people over initially with soft talk, but you cannot be all programs to all people and survive as the Governor of even the most leftwing state in this country.
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