I never blamed voters. Arnold ran as a conservative, governed as a liberal and then people associated his failures with conservatism. I sat in bars in Southern California at the end of his term and and heard many many times how Arnold wrecked the state and proved that conservative stuff doesn’t work. I mean, people were willing to give Jerry Brown another chance after Arnold.
As I stated, he ran on the Gray Davis Budget and he got four Initiatives on the Ballot which failed. He simply gave up and then his Social Liberal side came out.
Doesn’t matter anyway, it’s water under the Bridge.