What a putrid PANT-LOAD!!! This is revenge and you can't play Monte Hall with vicious, vengeful people whose only dream is to crush consistent conservatism!
The problem in CA is a fiscal & infrastucture crisis that is triggering a huge threat to the business climate. Just because someone running for Governor holds to some social issues means nothing as he'll be too busy solving the fiscal issues in 3 years, alone! Tom doesn't need to waste time with a dang audit as he already knows where the fiscal waste is and how to solve it. It doesn't take starpower to deal with that. The Governor has a line item veto pen!
The polls mean less in this compacted election as no one really understands how to correctly pose the questions and the organizations polling all have axes to grind, so they're all push polls anyway. Some huge suprises are in order that would make deal making look stupid in hind-sight!
As Bruce Hershenson's commercial says, if everybody that likes Tom's promise but says "he can't win" would stop pretending to be some astute political genius and vote for Tom, HE WOULD WIN IN A LANDSLIDE!!!
Torie: I don't think Arnold cares that much about it, and perhaps he would oppose partial birth abortion. In any event, it is a non issue in a California state election anyway you cut it, since it has been taken over by SCOTUS, and California will be one of the last places in the land to put any restrictions on abortion in any event.Perhaps you did not read the key words in Rohrabacher's interview that I posted in post 138 on this thread.
Q: On his website, Arnold says, "I support the state's current family planning programs, and as governor would make no changes to this policy." The state of California currently pays for abortions with tax dollars. ROHRABACHER: Right.That means that the state pays for abortions and that Arnold plans to make no changes in that program. Pardon me for interpreting that as the fact that the decision can be made locally and he does not plan to. Pretty much as clear as the nose on your face.