Frankly, A CA Guy -- if I've learned nothing about liberals in CA; I've learned this: They love to play these 'slow torture" games upon the citizenry. Some people do crosswords; some do anagrams; liberals do "spin".
It's true that the libs aren't honest about what they are up to; but I have figured it out -- they think by "spinning" matters it makes them "smarter" than everyone else.
Ergo, foisting up-front, whole-hog marxism ==honestly== upon people, just doesn't ring their chimes. In My Experience.
Liberals have been doing spin for decades because they can't run on who they are.
The politicians of the left and their government employee unions were hysterical over this election.
The unions pay/bribe the democrat politicians to grow union jobs, security and pay.
They are in fact cancers on the future of California that need to be radiated out of existence.
The money and ads made a difference. The fact that all the unions and employees of government came out to vote while the rest did not was also in their favor.
I think Arnold meant well as did Reagan 38 years ago who lost the same exact way, but you don't get election turn outs in special elections and this favors the leftists who have the motivations (their paychecks and power) to go out and vote for their jobs.
This was a great election in that we made the bastards spend hundreds of millions from their bank accounts.
They can't keep it up and we have every reason to put lots of propositions again on the ballots. It's cheap to do and will eventually be very effective for California.
Arnold should have come out earlier against the ads that started out against him and later went against the propositions.