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Total recall -- blame the internet:

If people aren't swarming shopping malls and camping out at post offices, how are people getting petitions and signing them? The mail and the Internet .. Charles C. Turner, assistant professor of political science at Chico State University, said the recall is at the confluence of technology, a weak economy and a $40 billion state budget deficit. "It's really weird that there is so little (visibility)," Turner said. "When (Ross) Perot was trying to get on the ballot, there were swarms of people and campaign signs." Turner was astounded that proponents were able to collect so many signatures in so little time. The threshold is 12 percent of voters from the last election, not the 5 percent needed to qualify an initiative.

Imagine the whining if Bill O'Reilly was governor of California, and not simply a TV celebrity.