Schwarzenegger prevailed
( 2003-10-08 11:51) (Agencies)
Voters traded a career Democratic politician who became one of the state's
most despised chief executives for a moderate Republican megastar who had never
before run for office. Davis became the first California governor pried from
office and only the second nationwide to be recalled.
Schwarzenegger prevailed despite a flurry of negative publicity in the
campaign's final days, surviving allegations that he had groped women and
accusations that as a young man he expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler.
The 56-year-old Austrian immigrant _ husband of television journalist Maria
Shriver _ finds himself in charge of the United States' most populated state
with an economy surpassed only by those of several countries.
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