Schwarzenegger is a social moderate and a fiscal liberal. He thought things were going to be easy, which turned out not to be true. He'll get reelected, but who know if he will have the courage to change things. The funny thing is he campaigned on a pledge to open up the books completely, and do a full audit. After the election, that was never heard about again.
He thought things were going to be easy, which turned out not to be true.
He thought things were going to be so easy that he may have destroyed his political capital taking on the unions in an unpopular special election. His mistake was thinking Republicans would support him and the Media would give his ideas a fair hearing.