This is the lesson of Arnold Schwarzenegger

[ritaxis]

The reason Arnold Schwarzenegger won is that he rolled out the full-on bribes: some environment, some transportation, some public services, while at the same time running a smear campaign against Angelides. Schwarzenegger demonstrated that

Republicans who pretend to be Democrats can win.

Democrats had been acting like Republicans with less corruption for a long time and they were losing. When they started acting a little bit like Democrats they started winning again.

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[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Right, that's all true. But the thing that hit me was that in order to put the charming act over, he had to charm with what looked like major concessions and he had to keep as far away from the border wall as possible. That's interesting to me. A few months ago he looked like he was going to lose, and then presto! he's an environmentalist!