{"id":1162,"date":"2003-08-10T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2003-08-10T15:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/10\/california-field-narrowed-to-155\/"},"modified":"2003-08-10T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2003-08-10T15:23:19","slug":"california-field-narrowed-to-155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/10\/california-field-narrowed-to-155\/","title":{"rendered":"California Field Narrowed to 155"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a573'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/nixon.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"165\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"326\">The great state that brought us Richard Millhouse Nixon,<br \/>\n      our nation&#8217;s only (half) Quaker president, the quintessentially American<br \/>\n      idea of hiring an Actor to be President, the state which, together with<br \/>\n      Texas, killed the Kennedy Camelot, the state responsible for Weapons of<br \/>\n      Mass Destruction like the Los Angeles Lakers and Crimes Against Humanity<br \/>\n    like &#8220;Gigli&#8221;, is cooking up another doozy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<p>The wacky way those Californians set up their ballot questions<br \/>\n        leaves open the possibility that current Gov. Gray Davis could muster<br \/>\n        a full 49% of the vote on the first question, being narrowly out-voted<br \/>\n        by<br \/>\n        the heterogeneous potpourri dying for the chance to cast a vote for Arnold,<br \/>\n        or Uberroth or Angelyne, and that on the second question, among 155 candidates,<br \/>\n        Arnold could take the governorship with 10 or 15% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>At which<br \/>\n        point he would be in charge of the most populous of these 50 United States.<br \/>\n        He would be running the WORLD&#8217;S 7th largest<br \/>\n        economy! If the &#8220;Austrian Oak&#8221; isn&#8217;t the epitome of the<br \/>\n        American Dream, I don&#8217;t know who is. Think he&#8217;ll play himself<br \/>\n    in the movie?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great state that brought us Richard Millhouse Nixon, our nation&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/10\/california-field-narrowed-to-155\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}