Word: arnolds
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...There are problems. These are Democrats, after all. They remain muddled on Iraq. Their special-interest groups, especially the teachers' unions, were strengthened last week by the defeat of Arnold Schwarzenegger's California reform initiatives. The teachers spent a shameful $7 million to defeat a mild proposal to delay eligibility for tenure from two to five years of classroom experience. Worse, congressional districting reforms failed in both California and Ohio; two decades of questionable gerrymandering deals, especially between white Republicans and black Democrats in the South, has increased minority representation but decreased the number of House districts where Democrats...
...president, a member of the nation's reigning Republican political dynasty; the other is a movie star who married into the nation's most enduring Democratic political dynasty. Between them, they govern two of the biggest states in the country. But while Florida's Jeb Bush and California's Arnold Schwarzenegger certainly have the highest profiles of any state leaders in the U.S., neither has been able to translate that celebrity into full-blown success. In fact, each has learned the hard way that star power doesn't help nearly as much after an election as before...
...stinging referendum on Schwarzenegger, whose approval ratings have dropped from 61% a year ago to 33%, with just over a year before he runs for re-election. "If I would do another Terminator movie," Schwarzenegger told reporters, "I would have Terminator travel back in time to tell Arnold not to have a special election...
When a Hollywood studio invests heavily in a movie that turns out to be a box-office flop, the polite euphemism is: "The film didn't find an audience". California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had a similar problem finding his audience in the state's special election yesterday. The former Hollywood star had backed four government reform propositions; by Wednesday morning it was clear that all four were voted down in a crushing rejection of the governor's program for change...
...This was a big loss for Arnold, but not yet a fatal blow," says Allan Hoffenblum, a Los Angeles-based Republican strategist."The question now is how does he reconnect with voters who supported him [in the recall election] in 2003 but who abandoned him this time?" For Schwarzenegger to reconnect, Hoffenblum says, "he has to calm down the rhetoric, stop being the celebrity and start being the governor...