State Democrats recall lessons of Florida
Republicans' 2000 tactics serving as model for Davis' team
June 30, 2003
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Republicans on election day. As the recall gets closer to qualifying, that possibility could scare Democrats into putting up a candidate.
"If it qualifies, once it qualifies, I think everything changes," said Bill Whalen, a former speechwriter for former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. "I think they will go out, and they will do a poll and make an assessment of Davis. As much as you vilify Issa and try to make this a Republican cabal, you still have to vote up and down on Davis."
E-mail Robert Salladay at rsalladay@sfchronicle.com.
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