Californians are not completely stupid. They keep giving up Democrats for president but when they get sick of their taxes being raised, they elect a

@QuixoticSoul What about Jerry Brown?

@MarkPaul Republicans did not run another Arnold in those elections.

@QuixoticSoul No, I mean how was he as Governor?

@QuixoticSoul Why did Arnold get recalled?

@Pitchblue He didn't. Davis got recalled - that's how we got Arnold.

@MarkPaul He was also all right. I liked Arnold better.

@Pitchblue Arnold didn't get recalled. He replaced Gray Davis in a recall. Arnold was a moderate Republican and does not endorse Baby-trump tactics, policies, or mannerisms.

@MarkPaul I didn't know it was a recall on Gray Davis. I just heard about this and thought it was Arnold.

@Pitchblue Yeah - Davis was... underwhelming and there was a perception that he was even more in bed with big business than governors usually are. Plus the deregulation debacle reflected poorly on him, even though he wasn't the one that pushed it through.

@QuixoticSoul When Davis got to office, in Jan 1999, California was flying high on the dot com bubble good times. A year later, the bubble burst and Davis was the public face. He never recovered.

Arnold did not magically come up with the missing tax revenue, but people were willing to deal with him, because he did not preside over the collapse.