[Quix]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, hello?

Do you recall the issue in literature of the hero?

And perhaps vicarious identification with the hero?

The factual income difference doesn't figure in.

It's a visceral, emotional, fantasy, wish thing in most cases.

Conscioiusly, or unconsciously, millions of people will be imagining themselves striding down the street with the Terminator kicking arses of the corrupt politicians as usual in Sacramento.

He will push a list of buttons regarding good/evil; manliness/wimpishness; man/woman virlity, potency stuff; Individual against the government machine stuff; HOPE vs hopelessness stuff a la Terminator movies bridging over to political hope/hopelessness; Tall vs short stuff; Rags to riches vs born rich stuff; Self-made man stuff vs hopelessly in debt; . . .

A long list of socio-economic groups/sub groups of individuals will be consciously and unconsciously but intensely emotionally drawn to identify with Arnold and to see themselves consciously or unconsciously striding triumphantly into Sacramento to right the wrongs of California.

If he plays his cards 1/10th right and no destructive miracles occur--I consider him unstoppable, still.

There's just tooooooooooooooooo much psychology and sociology in that direction regardless of what the polls currently seem to indicate.

[summer]

Tell me how anyone who makes $30 million a year could even know about a "car tax," let alone want to eliminate it.