Posted on 10/25/2005 7:05:25 AM PDT by Amerigomag
This very odd political campaign spawned a very odd political event Monday night — a kinda, sorta, more-or-less, quasi, facsimile, pseudo-facade of a faux-debate between Gov. Schwarzenegger and two critics of the ballot measures he wants voters to approve on Nov. 8 — and Schwarzenegger delivered a strong performance to claim at least a semi-victory.
The result, not surprisingly, was an exchange of pre-digested assertions about both the measures and the motives of Republican Schwarzenegger and the Democrat/union coalition that opposes the four propositions that would, at least marginally, reduce their influence in the Capitol.
It's more than a little ironic that Schwarzenegger's foes believe that their path to defeating his measures is to pin them on him, because a year ago his public approval marks were near 70%, and he wanted the campaign to be a referendum on himself. Now, with his public standing cut in half, he's trying to soften his personal identification with the measures and portray them as a crusade to clean out entrenched interests in a Legislature that may be even less popular with Californians.
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It was definitely an odd event.
I missed the c'Rat front end of the affair.
Nothing new came to light in the last half and Torres and Doof only got a short time to say much of anything.
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