You are right, of course.
We have a very immature electorate, who need courting and tweeking ever so much to get them in the mood.
Maybe there should be a purple finger incentive.
Good luck trying to explain that to people who'd rather spend their hours railing about who or what is a "real" conservative. Been there. Been there for many years.
These propositions were the opportunity for change that conservatives keep whining for and they didn't show, so they were all lost.
I used to know what I thought CA conserv/Repubs wanted. I was smack dab in the middle of a brawl between two pals fighting over Mr. Parsky, years back. I wanted them to both shut up and get to work. But instead it turned into a battle of the "genuine" vision thing. CA Dems have been chasing "business" out of CA for going on 15 years now. We know what the "agenda" in doing that is, and so Arnold offered some proposition which would put a ding into that, in a way, that some just can't see. There's just no pleasing some people, A CA Guy. Thanks for listening to my rant here. I knew this frustration there, and I know it yet in re CA. Government will continue to grow in CA. Private business will continue its decline. This past "special election" gave voters the choice of which they choose -- work for unions or rebuild the economy and base.
Let me tell you what I tell people here in NC... they love Los Angeles. I say, that's good. They fear San Francisco. I say, that's wise. The last bastion of voting "sanity" remains in the south State and along the eastern borders of CA.
Every conservative/Repub should *live* in the SF Bay Area, awhile -- they'd never not vote for their guy, and his special initiatives, ever again.