Recall at your peril.(Devil in the Details)
American Prospect, The, September, 2003
OF ALL THE FORMS OF Social chaos for which California is justly famed--riots, murders, gang wars--the state's most distinctive upheavals are those that bubble up from the white middle class on election day. They've included everything from term limits to tax revolts, and now the mother of all direct-democracy circuses.
It's a better than even bet that Gray Davis will be thrown out on Oct. 7, and that his successor will be elected by less than 20 percent of the voters. If so, the next governor of California will likely be either Arnold Schwarzenegger or lackluster Democratic Lt. ...
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