Posted on 01/13/2007 8:07:16 AM PST by calcowgirl
As he begins his second term, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity is high in both parties and across all regions of the state, including the liberal Bay Area, a new poll from San Jose State University finds.
Sixty-three percent of California voters say they approve of the governor's job performance -- the highest mark since San Jose State's Survey and Policy Research Institute began polling on Schwarzenegger's popularity two years ago. Only 27 percent of voters gave him low marks. Bay Area voters responded similarly: 61 percent approved and 27 percent didn't.
"Californians really like the centrist Arnold. It's playing well with Democrats and independents, as well as the Republicans who have been supporting him all along," said survey director Melinda Jackson. "A lot of that is the post-elect bump, the honeymoon period."
The survey of 676 voters was taken Jan. 2 to 6.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Big surprise. He's giving the Californians what they want: Socialism.
Liberalism sells in the land of fruits and nuts.
Maybe some of it is sympathy! I read he is in a great deal of pain as he recovers from the surgery. And as a result he has worked more hours! In some of those extra hours he came up with his newest proposals, although my husband thinks they were inspired by Uncle Ted over the holidays!
Anyone who supplies addicts with what they want is always popular, until withdrawal commences.
Who knows, with a $20 billion bond issue here, a $30 billion bond issue there, Arnold could keep the state on its high for quite a long time!
Then someone else can deal with the hangover.
The healthcare plan has been in the works for at least a year as can be evidenced by the complexity. Arnold favored a Hillary-care type plan long before he was elected in 2003 (although no one reported it until Joe Mathews published Arnold's biography last year).
Two other observations:
1) The poll was taken before his new "healthcare for all" announcement, his state of the state address, and his new budget.
2) The poll also includes quite a few questions on Bush and Iraq, the results of which are very negative and give an indication of the type of people SJSU included in the poll.
They're going to be real happy when his reckless spending plunges the State into bankruptcy--and they are finally forced to face reality.
And that the California Left intends to drag the entire United States into the quicksand along with them.
What? You were expecting a "fair" poll?
Not in the cards,Baby.
Besides, this is California and this is our "Fool"...the one we all know and love.
He's as close to a gelding as State politicians are allowed to be.
Arnold Targets 'Global Warming' SAN FRANCISCO --(AP) Declaring climate change to be an indisputable threat, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled a plan to combat global warming by setting goals for reducing California's emissions of greenhouse gases. "Today, California will be a leader in the fight against global warming," Schwarzenegger told a United Nations conference on the environment on Wednesday. Under the governor's executive order, the secretary of California's Environmental Protection Agency will be charged with overseeing efforts to meet those goals, and will report on the state's progress in January and every six months after that. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an emergency proclamation on Friday citing "conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property ... as a result of extreme low temperatures and freezing conditions."Jan. 13, 2007, 11:26AM Freeze grips much of nation's midsection Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. Residents from Texas to Illinois today braced for yet another wave of a deadly storm that had already coated the region with a layer of freezing rain and sleet, as frigid arctic blasts reached as far as Southern California. More than 125,000 homes and businesses had no electricity today in the St. Louis area, where the storm dumped a mix of snow and ice the day before. "We are still in the middle of a storm," said Ern DeCamp, spokesman for Springfield's City Utilities, where 50,000 customers were without power. "We're still losing people." The storm had been blamed for at least six deaths across the region and led to some school closures and flight cancellations at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The latest death reported was a 26-year-old woman killed today in Oklahoma when the car she was riding in swerved off Interstate 40 and slammed into a sand truck that was clearing ice from the shoulder. In Oklahoma, where the storm had dropped more than a half-an-inch of sleet, some 24,000 homes and businesses were without power today. Most of the outages were in the southwestern and south central parts of the state. "We're still keeping our fingers crossed. We haven't had the outages that we expected so far," said Albert Ashwood director of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management. At least two more waves of freezing rain, ice and snow are expected during the weekend, he said. "We're very concerned about those," Ashwood said. The storm was moving into Illinois, where the National Weather Service issued an ice storm warning today for the central part of the state through Monday morning. Freezing rain could layer the region with up to half an inch of ice, forecasters said. Sun-loving Southern Californians also got a rare dose of freezing weather, prompting worry about the homeless and crops. From Palmdale to Fresno, temperatures ranged from the single digits to the low 30s, although much of Los Angeles County stayed in the low 40s. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an emergency proclamation Friday citing "conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property ... as a result of extreme low temperatures and freezing conditions." |
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The ear twitch is great potlatch
Thank you devolve! The ear and tail twitch belie the 'dead horse' theory though!!
BUT, make it more fun to look at...
ROFL! Quite a contrast, I'd say.
Can we cut the billions in taxes being poured into fighting Global Warming windmills now?
If it's almost dead algore will talk it to death
If it's dead Slick Willie will sleep with it
Are you messing with threads again?? snicker
Always!
(...Actually, I think someone ELSE is already busy fighting all the 'windmills'... but I guess that's really a whole 'nother story, isn't it?)
Kennedy doesn't play by the rules - The Boston Globe Even if Kennedy would prefer to see Cape Wind plant its windmills in somebody else's sailing grounds, he has always claimed to support the development of wind power (''I strongly support renewable energy, including wind energy, as a means of reducing our dependence on foreign oil and protecting the environment" -- Cape Cod Times, Aug. 8, 2003).
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