Posted on 07/14/2010 6:04:15 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Arnold Schwarzenegger approval drops to record low -- tied with Gray Davis
dsiders@sacbee.com
Published Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's job approval rating has fallen to a record low, matching that of former Gov. Gray Davis from 2003, the year he was recalled, according to a Field Poll released today.
Registered voters held an even dimmer view of the job state lawmakers are doing. Though the Legislature's job approval rating ticked up three points from March, it remained a dismal 16 percent, according to the poll.
With the state mired in yet another budget crisis, just 22 percent of registered voters approve of the way Schwarzenegger is doing his job, down a point from March, according to the poll. Seventy percent of voters disapprove and 8 percent have no opinion, the poll found.
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Sic semper Dem-lite!
That is why we should never vote for a RINO. The Conservatives will receive the blame for their immutable failures.
He’s as much of a Republican as Mayor Bloomberg in NYC or Charlie Crist in FL.
Bustamante!
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I think the post-mortem is long overdue. This all happened in 2005, with the propositions. The outcome was definite.
For someone who used to see the “Gray-Out” stickers on trucks around Sacramento County it’s discouraging
I guess those reviews for Last Action Hero are suddenly looking pretty good, hey, Ahhnollld?
California has created a political system that is unmanageable. Between the ballot initiatives, and the power wielded by the legislature, the Executive has been rendered practically feckless and without the power to effect any meaningful changes. Look at how many of Arnold's attempts to reduce or freeze spending have been undone by the judiciary.
California is unsalvageable. Until they make substantive changes to their constitution, and legislative process, no Governor can cure what ails them. For this reason, I think it best that Moonbeam win the election because I'd MUCH rather have a Democrat at the helm of the USS California as she sinks from the debt-berg, which is plainly predictable and completely unavoidable.
Schwarzenegger is just another Obama, Reid, Pelosi supporter going down the drain.
My heart goes out to the California conservatives, it must be hell for them. From where I sit, California looks like a dead state.
Although as bad as RINO Schwarzenegger has been, I doubt that anyone could have saved that state.... it’s been on death watch for decades.
Schwarzenegger is just another Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Kennedy supporter going down the drain.
My heart goes out to the California conservatives, it must be hell for them. From where I sit, California looks like a dead state.
Although as bad as RINO Schwarzenegger has been, I doubt that anyone could have saved that state.... it’s been on death watch for decades.
Nope. It started when he first took the political stage in 2001 with his Prop 49 (government babysitting) and LONG before the 2005 propositions. There is a long list of the liberal initiatives he undertook before that (Global warming laws, Cap-and-tax schemes, Mega borrowing, mega spending, massive land grabs, etc).
The myth "he tried but was beat on his conservative propositions" is just that -- MYTH! Those propositions weren't conservative at all (read the fine print) and it ignores the long-term damage Schwarzenkennedy had already been doing for years.
The post-mortem should read that the electorate was schnookered by a rich liberal celebrity saying whatever it took to get elected and gain power. Cult of personality is a dangerous thing.
MegaBust or Bust!!
aRnie the Terminated
Heh. You speak as if I voted for him. I never said he wasn’t suspicious
Regardless of what he believed/pushed in 2001, 2002, or 2003, it was not foreordained that his administration would buckle, as had each before it
2005 was the death knell. At the time, was registered in 90017, having moved there the previous summer. Saw a man accompany into the booth and rapidly coach a timid woman on filling out her ballot: “no; no; no; no” etc. It was like Tammany Hall. Whether the ballot initiatives mattered
I voted No on all those propositions except Parental notification. You had to read the fine print to see that the "spending" measure had little to do with cutting spending, etc. Had those initiatives passed, we would be worse off, today.
And yes -- I would say it was inevitable that the liberal Arnie would govern as a liberal(R).
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