To national political observers, Arnold Schwarzenegger's landslide re-election as California's Republican governor was nothing short of miraculous, given the state's generally Democratic leanings, the Democratic tide that swept over the rest of the nation and Schwarzenegger's very low popularity when the year began. Schwarzenegger is touting his win as reflecting a new political paradigm -- centrism and bipartisanship -- that should be emulated at the national level. He established new genres in bodybuilding and movies and implies that he's doing it again in politics (just a year after trumpeting anti-politician populism as his shtick, it should be noted). "Well, it's...