Lately i've been hearing some anti-Arnold rhetoric, and I just wanted to make my statements clear.
Why do you think people are ignorant? Schwarzenegger won by a pretty large margin, with the sample consisting of around 7 million people. I'd say there's more to him winning than ignorance.
On the one side, we had a governor who felt like an impenetrable elitist and flaunted it all the way to the bust of the economy, probably only being reelected due to being an incubant.
On the other side we have a man who hasn't held an office per se, but has been appointed as an overseer of various federal positions and has authored some bills in our state. In addition, he possesses incredible charisma. He came to this country with only 20$ to his name and is now a multimillionaire (that appeals to people). His wife, a Kennedy descendant, is a hard-line democrat, so he should be able to work with our democrat-filled government system (note: I like dems much more than repubs, so i'm not saying that a dem-filled house is bad).
He wants to end "politics as usual", gaining bipartisian support and i think he can do it. He's also addressing the budget (that he must figure out before January) by promising that if he and other elected officials don't get a budget passed by the deadline, they won't be getting a paycheck. However, because he's never held a true office before, we'll see how he fares. He's a hard worker, but inexperience will cost him something somewhere down the line.
Some Miscellany of information: I think Davis was going to have a difficult time getting through NOT being recalled because basically it was the governor being selected VS all the hopefuls. That's like 1 vs 130 people! (don't quote me on 130, I just remember that the amount of people on the ballot was around there). A large amount of people knew Bustamante was just as crooked as Davis was, and responded to that with their votes.
On top of that, remember: people don't REALLY vote with their heads. If they did, the incubant wouldn't win the vast majority of the time. People DO vote with their emotions, and that's partially why Arnold was elected. Davis pissed a lot of people off, even to the point that he barely won LAST election, having less than half of the State's votes.
P.S. Did I already mention that he was going to win before the election happened?
EPILOGUE: Gray Davis was approached by lobbyists and made more money being a consultant for lobbyist groups than he ever made being governor. However, he made a bid for presidency, but due to his discreditation in California, was forced to drop out of the race.
Arnold... well, who knows what'll happen? I think he'll succeed in restoring California to profitability.
Wednesday, October 8
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