"It's stunning people who are watching this. Polling shows he'll lose unless he can go back to his base of support -- Latino and ethnic voters -- but Davis' advisors have failed to do the obvious. They've done nothing to reach out to them."
| In "Davis Needs Ethnic Vote in Recall Election -- So Where Is He?" the Chinese American Voter Education Committee's David Lee talked to New California Media writer Mary Jo McConahay last month.
California voted heavily for Al Gore at the 2000 election and came back with solidly Democrat results this time, too. But what was interesting about the exit polls was how the state divides politically. Davis won by the margin of 47% to 42% with Green candidate Peter Camejo taking a respectable 5% with his 346,000 votes.
Men voted for Simon by 47% to 42% while women voted for Davis by 52% to 37%, which may have something to do with Simon being anti-abortion while Davis is pro-choice. Whites voted for Simon in preference to Davis, 46% to 43%, so the governor was dependent on black (79% of whom backed him), Latino (65%) and Asian (54%) for his victory.
| Guardian UK writer Duncan Campbell's "That's show business" outlined Davis' female and ethnic base of support last November.
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