California election results

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What were the Dems thinking in this one, running one of the most boring people imaginable against Arnold Schwarzenegger?

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What were the Dems thinking in this one, running one of the most boring people imaginable against Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Given the size of the victory, I'm not sure we could have won the governor race. The Insurance Commissioner race is different, a lot of liberals voted for the RINO (Poizner) over the terrible candidate (Bustamante). Bustamante is finished politically.

I didn't follow this race that closely but I knew running someone COMPLETELY uninspiring against Arnold Schwarzenegger would fail. Then again, rewarding a Republican for admitting to making a mistake and then trying to fix it by reaching out to the opposition might send a good message to the rest of the party, as this article states: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15620299/site/newsweek/from/ET/

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Jfern,

When is Boxer's senate seat up for grabs? And how decent or poor of a chance do you think Arnie has of taking it?

NEVER!

Haha, she's up again in 2010.
Anyways, I think California is a lot more willing to elect Republicans as governor than to US Senate. A similar situation is in Rhode Island, moderate Chafee lost 47-53 while his party retained the governorship 51-49.

I assume the never was in reference to my Kentucky comment anyways...FINE THEN YOU CAN HAVE IT, I NEVER WANTED THAT GARBAGE ANYWAYS!

Right now, as opposed to 2005, it seems Arnie's able to over come his R disadvantage...dunno how long that would last, but how close do you think it would be in a typical year (not counting a GOP year nationally like say 02 or 94, or a Dem year like well...06...where Chafee just got well...screwed by GW Bush)...

He could probably do well, but Arnie wouldn't want legislative work. He's too much of an executive.