Arnold has abruptly cancelled just about every danged thing he has started a run-up to!!! Now he's realized that even some of his reforms are in trouble so he's changed his ads to get him disassociated from the issues.
He suddenly understands that even if he wins, it'll be impossible to govern because he's personalized the issues and pist-off too many powerful and even hundreds of thousands of not too powerful people and wouldn't be able to govern!!!
And he knows that if even one little pin prick (initiative loss) gets too near his flimsy balloon of mile wide, but inch deep mystique, he'll go down in flames like that hydrogen filled diridgeible in New Jersey!!! (Oh the humanity!)(I guess you could call it the "hydrogen blimp blow-out," rather than the "hydorgen highway!)
I keep tellin you guys... PUT A FORK IN 'EM! HE'S DONE!!!