The weekend before the California recall, Gov. Gray Davis's campaign appealed to several Democratic presidential candidates.
The weekend before the California recall, Gov. Gray Davis's campaign appealed to several Democratic presidential candidates--including Wesley Clark (person) Wesley Clark - One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic. , John Kerry  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , Howard Dean Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont, and currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the central organ of the Democratic Party at the national level. , and Dick Gephardt--to come to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. for a unity rally scheduled for the Monday before election day. Davis's aides promised the candidates that the governor's poll numbers were tightening up, and that a show of support from the presidential contenders would push him over the edge. But a little research revealed that Davis's new poll had been taken on Friday and Saturday, a notoriously unreliable period in which to do surveys. None of the candidates showed up.
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