[summer]

"Arnolds comes across as being or having been 'one of us."

I am not a CA voter, so my opinion doesn't count and I know that - but what you wrote above is the funniest thing I have ever heard in my life, unless you and all your friends are pulling down $30 million per year in wages. I'm a teacher, and I can you: I'm not.

[summer]

I can you = I can tell you

[strela]

but what you wrote above is the funniest thing I have ever heard in my life, unless you and all your friends are pulling down $30 million per year in wages.

"So Junior, what did you read on FreeRepublic today?"

"I read a post where a so-called 'conservative' was upset that somebody else was making 30 million dollars a year. You shoulda seen it - I thought a virus had sent me to DU against my will!"

"Ah, so class envy actually exists on FreeRepublic?"

"Yes indeedydoody."

[Howlin]

Is it your belief that only people in the same income bracket can have the same political views?

If so, how is it that you support Jeb Bush?

[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.

[TheDon]

Ah, but you could have, and can, this is America! I'll bet Arnold was making less than you when he started out. Apparently, he was quite wealthy before he took up acting.

[novacation]

"I'm a teacher.." Public school right.Seems you have an inablility to understand that money doesn't always change a persons view of the world.Your comment makes you sound that you fall for democrat party class warfare theory.