SFGate: Republican voters didn't show up at the polls in California

[Kadie]

ELECTION AFTERMATH
Republican voters didn't show up at the polls
John Wildermuth, Chronicle Political Writer

Friday, November 10, 2006


California's Republican voters stayed home in droves on election day, as preliminary figures show voter turnout falling well below the state average in some of the most reliably GOP parts of the state.

Although the final totals won't be known for weeks, election day turnout in Fresno, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and SanDiego counties, which all have Republican pluralities, ran as much as 10 percentage points below the state's 44 percent average turnout.

"The turnout in Republican counties was low compared to the turnout in counties where Democrats hold the edge,'' said Patrick Dorinson, a spokesman for the state Republican Party. "The conservative Republican base didn't show up.''

Without that anticipated flood of votes from places such as Orange County and the Inland Empire, Tuesday was a long night for most of the statewide Republican candidates not named Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"It came as a surprise,'' admitted Stan Devereaux, a spokesman for Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock, who lost the lieutenant governor's race to Democratic Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi. "We kept looking at the returns through the night and thought we had a chance, but when the returns (from Republican counties) came in, we didn't get the turnout we expected.''


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[Demeter]

1. How Interesting!

Does that mean they couldn't bear to vote for Ahnold?

[soothsayer]

2. Does that mean that the dems voted for him?

[Kadie]

3. 22 percent of Dems voted for arnie

snip...
According to exit polls, Schwarzenegger attracted 93 percent of the Republican votes, 59 percent of independent voters, and a strong 22 percent of Democratic votes.

[Pyrzqxgl]

5. This Damn state is nuts about celebrities who run for office

So far the Republicans have us beat all to hell in this department (Reagan, Geo. Murphy, Sonny Bono(gasp). We have so many celebrities who campaign for Democrats and a few talk about running for office, but none ever seem to.

[Kerrytravelers]

4. And, apparently, proudly so. Read the link to believe it.

:crazy: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=141x25284 :crazy:

[Ignacio Upton]

6. Why was the Garamendi-McClintock race so close?

n/t.

[1932]

7. McClintock has high name recognition after the recall election

possibly as high or higher than Garamendi.