California Field Narrowed to 155

Posted on August 10, 2003 by glasscastle

The great state that brought us Richard Millhouse Nixon,
our nation’s only (half) Quaker president, the quintessentially American
idea of hiring an Actor to be President, the state which, together with
Texas, killed the Kennedy Camelot, the state responsible for Weapons of
Mass Destruction like the Los Angeles Lakers and Crimes Against Humanity
like “Gigli”, is cooking up another doozy.

The wacky way those Californians set up their ballot questions
leaves open the possibility that current Gov. Gray Davis could muster
a full 49% of the vote on the first question, being narrowly out-voted
by
the heterogeneous potpourri dying for the chance to cast a vote for Arnold,
or Uberroth or Angelyne, and that on the second question, among 155 candidates,
Arnold could take the governorship with 10 or 15% of the vote.

At which
point he would be in charge of the most populous of these 50 United States.
He would be running the WORLD’S 7th largest
economy! If the “Austrian Oak” isn’t the epitome of the
American Dream, I don’t know who is. Think he’ll play himself
in the movie?
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One Response to California Field Narrowed to 155

  1. Nate says:
    August 10, 2003 at 4:17 pm

    Actually, with 155 candidates, it only requires about slightly more than two-thirds of one percent of total votes cast to win. Assuming 10 million voters (which is remarkably high turnout, more than helf of registered), you’d need about 70,000 votes to become the next governor of California.

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