Reply #92: C'mon!

[billfromwny]

Not that hard to figure out. You get a bunch of voters who are mad as hell about Gray Davis's policies; add someone well known who can run as a political outsider and tries to convey himself as a moderate, and Viola....Arnold gets in!

As for the American voter being stupid; I'll agree there is a distrust of intellectualism...mostly fostered by religion; but people I know believe they are so overtaxed here in NY; that they'll buy the tax cuts for the rich because they get $10/week more in their checks. Unfortunately, they don't look at what it does to state and local taxes, and how huge deficits drive up the cost of borrowing for everyone. I don't think it's that easy to quantify either because it usually takes a couple years for this type of tax cut to do its damage.