Oh, please. The actual conservatives were supporting Tom McClintock. I was not fooled by AH-nold for one second.
1. Arnold was a business success with the Schlotsky's Deli chain.
2. Arnold was going to make CA business friendly, first by lowering the employees mandated state disability payments which got out of hand.
3. Arnold was going to "blow up the boxes", meaning the superfluous state of CA departments that are redundant to federal such as EPA, OSHA; would be shut down.
Given these expectations, he won since his star power would sway independents; which it did. McClintok did not have a chance.
Arnold was our hope and change in 2003 for CA. I moved away in 2008, in disgust.
I'm behind Cain, who seems to be more genuine than the way Arnold turned out. My expectations have been tempered.