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Earth, unlike yourself perhaps.

We did not have lots of people out for the special election on the conservative side and that screwed the Governor regarding unions and the Democrat legislature.

If we won some of those propositions, he would have used that capital IMO to do more things.

Instead he was made to get along by the lack of conservative support.

I guess real bright conservatives figure the way to remedy that in 2006 would be to either not vote or vote for a retarded third party instead of the Republican in the regular election because we are that dumb.
Do you think we could have people be that stupid? There are always a number, but I hope that number is low, because all they do is get us Communist Democrats in office.

Those kind of voters should get tattoos saying "I'm a big Democrat supporter" IMO.

Keep posting myths, CA Guy.
The propositions were doomed from early on and Arnold may have been duped by his own team using false polling.

http://www.flashreport.org/special-reports0b.php?faID=2005110202424596
One wonders why they did not have thorough opinion research to adequately measure the futility of a campaign. Either there was no research, or they asked the wrong questions, or they ignored the data. Perhaps they were just so determined to have a special election. That’s what I think.

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The pollster keeps reporting that the consultant’s ads are working, so they buy more ads. It’s like the old brokerage churning – when brokers bought and sold a bunch of stocks. The commissions were high, and they did well even if you didn’t. So, it seems are that a survey concludes the campaign is not working. Better, when it’s over and the client loses, to blame it on voter turnout.

I can't imagine how they could have proceeded at all with a special election, or with this type of campaign, if they had serious quantitative and qualitative research. But, then again, I can imagine how they could have done the things they did last year. But maybe it's not the polling. I mean, why take this smart, wonderful communicator - -a macho guy, and make him into a milktoast, going to staged, contrived events in which he says next to nothing, and where each TV news report ridicules him and the event, and the "pres-elected" audience. I guess no one had the balls to sit him down, have him study the issues, and have him confront the electorate, Reagan-style, and show what he's made of.