[amordei]

You mean he should submit line items in a budget to the voters? Are you nuts?

Arnold has pretty much NO chance--the win was nice, but it's all downhill from here.

His only chance is to tell the voters of California that their whole system is completely screwed up and that it is time to rewrite the state constitution and return to a small "r" republican form of government and get rid of this inane referendum crap (though I rather liked CCRI and prop 187 myself).

Otherwise, he has really no room to cut enough. Recall that there will be 10 billion more added to the deficit total after a state court rejects the deficit financing as unconstitutional.

[CHUCKfromCAL]

"Arnold has pretty much NO chance--the win was nice, but it's all downhill from here"

I remember the same thing being said about President Bush a three or four years ago. It wasn't true then and it need not be true now.