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October 08, 2003

SUCCESS.

This election wasn’t even close. This was a blowout. Check out this chart of voting on the recall by county.

The vast majority of counties voted in favor of the recall.

Schwarzenegger has shown tremendous leadership in his handling of the campaign. When the Republican Party inexplicably didn’t run TV ads favoring the recall, Arnold’s campaign produced them and ran them.

He let everyone believe he was unable to speak to the issues, and then showed up at the debate and blew away all those criticisms. That was the moment that turned the whole campaign around.

Monday, when Peter Jennings was grilling Arnold, playing the usual media games, finally there was this exchange:

JENNINGS: The question I’m just trying to understand is you say some of it’s not true and some if it you don’t remember. What don’t you remember and what isn’t true?

SCHWARZENEGGER: It doesn’t make any sense to go through details here with you.

What is important is—what is important is that I cannot remember what was happening 20 years ago and 15 years ago. But some of the thing sounds like me and this is why I was the first one to come out and say, ;You know, some of the things could have happened.’’ I want to apologize to the people if I offended anyone, because that was not my intention.

“It doesn’t make any sense to go through details here with you.” Perfect. That’s what we need, is someone with the personality to blow away all the game-playing, and get the job done.