How Has Arnie Gone From 35% to 53% Approval Since February?

[mhatrw]

Here are Arnie's monthly approval ratings starting in February this year.

(Source: http://www.ppic.org/main/series.asp?i=12 )

35% - 2/06
37% - 3/06
38% - 4/06
45% - 5/06 (What happened other than two Dems beating on each other? Nothing.)
For some reason, they skipped June.
49% - 7/06 (Again, what did Arnie do to change the minds of 14% of voters since 2/06? Basically nothing.)
44% - 8/06 (Still up 9% since February - Why? How?)
53% - 9/06 (A 9% jump in a month? Up 18% since February? How? Why?)

[Kutjara]

1. Because we Californians are...

...the stupidest people on God's green Earth? That would be my guess.

Or it could be because Phil Angelides' campaign seems all but invisible at the moment.

Arnie's appearance on Leno probably added about 5 points on its own.

Take your pick of the options.

[rodeodance]

2. he has turned into a NEO-DINO

[mhatrw]

3. I swear to God that we are being conned.

Wait a minute there's Arnie posing with Gavin Newsom, who is lavishing praise on him!

There's him posing with Jerry Brown, who is also praising him!

There's Clinton and Gore telling us Prop 87 is good, but not a peep about a Dem governor for our state!

[xchrom]

5. damn -- short and to the point.

[dubykc]

4. That is actually a fairly easy question.

First, he signed the Greenhouse Gases legislation.
Second he entered into an agreement with the Governors of Oregon and Washington to protect the west coast from the ever encroaching Feds
Third he signed the Pet/Animal protection legislation.

And most importantly, he is an actor, he knows how to sell himself.

[Uncle Joe]

11. I agree with your post

I thought I read somewhere, he gave up his hummer and bought a hybrid, maybe that's incorrect.

I do not live in California but from reading the headlines, he has seemed to separate him self from the general Republican viewpoint that man induced global warming doesn't matter or is a hoax.

With the wave of environmental momentum coming from "An Inconvenient Truth", I believe Arnold has been surfing.

[rinsd]

13. He converted a Hummer to hydrogen (nt)

[AX10]

6. California is one screwy state. At least southern Cali is.

Very shallow sheeple. All they see is a movie star.

Quite sad.

[Blasphemer]

7. Californians and NY'ers floor me

I'm from NY and have lived in CA. I know that both states have very conservative areas but it seems that there are many lefties/moderate lefties who are comfortable with having liberal repubs in power if the Dems don't produce someone for them to get excited over. Meanwhile, the party gets complacent and has produced some lackluster candidates in both states. It's a vicious circle. I'm just happy NY is finally getting it right again with Spitzer. Hopefully, Cali will right itself in 4 years.

[Greyhound]

8. Californians are as easily manipulated as voters in the rest of amerika?

Or its it that the only people more lacking in intellect than the California Re:puke: Party, are the California Democratic Party?

CalDems give us Beige Davis, the spineless wonder that surrenders to the blackmailing energy companies, and the cal:puke:s follow this brilliance up by finding the only guy in the state that can lose to him.

So of course the sheeple replace him with an actor.?. :eyes:

[Tesha]

9. A vast number of "Democrats" plan to vote for him.

According to NPR, about 40% of California's "Democrats"
will be voting for the Republican instead of the Democrat.

Tesha

[Paranoid Pessimist]

10. Because the day after the primary, the ads started

depicting Angelides in slo-mo black and white, walking backwards, with voice over talking about how he would "take us back" by raising taxes. Skillfully done political propaganda and it went on for a couple of months with NO ANSWER from the Angelides camp. Had there been some kind of response the effect of these ads might (big maybe) have been blunted, but in a mass market media state like California whoever has the biggest war chest for buying TV spots will usually win, and the Republicans have supplied Arnie with a big enough war chest to start buying spots early and often.

[Auntie Bush]

12. Did the Angelides camp pound in their faces that Arnie was partly

responsible for their high electric costs in 2000 when he was in cahoots with the non-felon, now dead Kenny Boy? PBTL! The "P" stands for Praise so you can figure out the rest.

[mitchtv]

18. the Angelides camp did NOTHING

Phil, like John Kerry before him, took a vacation after the primary.Media wise, its still going on.

[JerseygirlCT]

14. Left turns

Never mind that he's going to make three of them, so that he's heading right again... in the meantime he's hoping enough people bite.

[Freddie Stubbs]

15. Stayed away from Bush and Congressional Republicans

[Booster]

16. One word - Angelides. I am as staunch a Dem as you can get

and even I can't get excited about Phil.

[yebrent]

17. The Primaries really hurt Phil

Steve Wesley made him out to be very anti-environmentalist, and kept hammering him on being a former developer who got in trouble with the EPA a few times. Right now, most Californian's probably believe that Arnold is better on the environment that Phil, which is not the case. Phil has done piss poor job either attacking Arnold or defending himself. For example, Phil is just now running a bio type ad. That should have been done months ago, and all the ads now should either be attacks on Arnold's strengths (the environment) or defenses against own weakness (the environment and taxes)

[mitchtv]

19. Very good summary

of the Non campaign of Angelides

[DuaneBidoux]

20. A really big part is his progressive stance and action on global warming