I would like to know what made Californians vote Arnold Schwarzenegger in office?
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Most likely his celebrity status. Americans have shown a huge fondness for voting for famous people which is why a lot of sports people go into politics after their careers have ended. It's called 'name recognition'.
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In California, if you are referring to THE District Attorney in the county in question, it's the voters.  \n\nThey vote the DA in, they vote the DA out.\n\nIf you're referring to a Deputy DA, it's the DA.\n\nIf you're referring to the Attorney General...it's the voters again.
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I'm voting for him.  That will be a vote switched from Feinstein for whom I voted last time.  \n\nWill he win?   I don't know.\n\nShould he win?  \n\nAbsolutely.  California's schools are being wiped out, along with its middle class.\n\nWe need to send a message that if our Congressmen vote against what they know the majority wants, they will lose their jobs.  Right now they hope it isn't a high enough priority with us to govern our votes.  I don't agree with Mountjoy on everything, but given that politics is about compromise, I'd rather have him on capital hill than Diane Feinstein.
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A movie star turned politician who will do or say whatever he thinks the voters want.\n\nHe was elected as a moderate, turned hard right, got his butt kicked at the polls and is now trying to reinvent himself as a moderate.\n\nMost Californians have figured out that has no particular ideals of his own, just a lust for power, so he is probably finished as a politician.\n\nHe might still have a few good movies left in him though.
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He started out trying to be the dictator of California, thinking that his popularity gave him the right to change anything he wanted without having to find compromise.\n\nOver the last year, he has been the best "Democrat" governor we've had in years. He is pro-business yet socially moderate/progressive, and he has shown a willingness to work with democrats to make government work.\n\nI hope the "Ahnold" we've seen over the last year is the "Governator" we will see in the future.
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Arnold only stated campaigning for environmental issues after his special election failed, and his approval ratings dropped. He is using that as a strategy to appeal to Independent and Democratic voters. \n\nPhil Angelides is supported by the Sierra Club. They said he would be the "greenest Governor CA has ever had". Phil has said he will block any attempt at offshore drilling. He has expressed support in protecting the CA Coastline.
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Try this:\nhttp://www.gop.com/States/StateDetails.aspx?state=CA
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Arnold Schwarzenegger\n\nMr. Olympia 1970, 1971, 1972,\n1973, 1974, 1975, 1980\n\nend of story
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I was too because I voted for him, but the people of Texas have been so brainwashed by the Republican conservatives and the Republican machine, that they decided they like the Bush clone, Perry and want him to continue.  Yuck!  Last time I checked the Kinkster was last and down around 11%.  At least I got a nice T-Shirt I can wear in years to come.  Just wish we were going to have a Governor Kinky.
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There's no one named Angelini running for CA governor. \n\nConsidering that Arnold's popularity has plummeted, it's probably a pretty safe bet to say that our next governor will be Phil Angelides.
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As a Republican in California - yes.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger because he became the governor of California and calls his opposition "girly men".
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Well, there were three candidates who got more than 10% of the vote in that election: Arnold, Cruz Bustamante and Tom McClintock.\n\nMany of the ideas Arnold campaigned on he stole from McClintock ... McClintock was a leader in the fight to stop the car tax from years earlier.\n\nCruz Bustamante was a member of the radical left who never renounced his ties to Mecha, a college-based "Chicano" activist group that thinks the Southwest should secede from the US and be ethnically cleansed of non-Hispanics.\n\nMany, many people were worried about splitting the Republican vote between McClintock and Arnold -- they were afraid that if they voted for McClintock they'd get the candidate they least wanted: Bustamante.  There was an internal McClintock poll that found half of Arnold's voters really wanted to vote for McClintock but were voting for the candidate that they thought had the best chance of winning.
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i voted mostly democratic i did vote for arnold for govenor he has shown that he can work for all the people not just follow a party line so if you have to tell rover something tell him that in order to form a more perfect union that candidates should forget the my party is better than your party system and support what is good for all americans not just the elite few and the special intrests
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Well certainly not our pathetic governor, Ahhhnold Boobengrabber. What a joke. "I want to be the people's guhvana of Kahleefoneeaa" "I will fight special interests", while of course he takes millions from big corporations to bully nurses, teachers, firefighters and anyone else who actually stands up for their rights. But here are some extemely popular things in the Golden State: surfing (the kind you do out in the ocean), hiking, backpacing, skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, camping, sushi, jazz, Hollywood and all it's glitter, Mexican food, Thai food, and organic food. This is by no means the complete list but it should give you an idea of the energetic, fun loving people in this great state (please forgive us for the Stoogeinator).
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He is the second longest serving Senator currently in the Senate (behind Byrd of West Virgina)\n\n1. I didn't vote for him as I am in California. Only those from Mass. could have voted for him\n\n2. You don't need ads if you are so far ahead of your opponent that it does not matter\n\n3. Buy votes?  In your opinion.  Do you have evidence to back up your statement?  If so, forward it to the FBI.\n\nRich people, poor people - you only have one vote.  As a rich person you can donate large sums of money to a candidates election fund which gives you more access.
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(Job interviews?  Wow.)\n\nThe power to remove a state can be viewed in two ways: as the power to punish a state for betraying the ideals of our republic, or as the power to reward a state for being capable of existing as an economically viable, independent, democratic nation.  I believe a strong case for both can be made for California.\n\nThe state of California is symbolic of what many people feel are the worst aspects of America.  Hollywood's movies are violent and sexually permissive and have the effect of "dumbing down" the populace; homosexuality runs rampant in many California cities; immigrants of all shapes and shades inhabit the state.  Many Americans abhor all of these aspects of California and, I suspect, more than a few of them would jettison the state if given the opportunity to do so.\n\nGiven the negative opinion of California by much of the rest of the nation, perhaps we should do the state a favor and remove it from the Union.  If California were an independent country it would have one of the ten most productive economies in the world (measured by GDP).  It boasts ample farmland, and I feel its human diversity is a strength, not a weakness.  The U.S. needs California more than California needs the U.S.  My only reservation would be the state of California's government, which has been hijacked by money-to-burn ideologues on both sides of the aisle and which I would not trust to run an independent country.