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  • Republicans Blame Schwarzenegger

    11/10/2005 6:30:07 AM PST · by Frank T · 29 replies · 855+ views
    AP ^ | November 10, 2005 | Michael R. Blood
    The across-the-board collapse of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ballot propositions came down to this: They were ideas with narrow appeal, further damaged by a flat-footed campaign and an unpopular messenger, the governor himself. And that's just what his fellow Republicans said. California's celebrity governor was elected in 2003 as a centrist Republican - an essential pedigree in a state that votes reliably Democratic. But by the end of his initiative campaign Tuesday, Schwarzenegger had alienated Democrats and independents and allowed his opponents to paint him as an extremist. "What was defeated yesterday was a caricature of Arnold Schwarzenegger, not the reality...