Reply #5: I've been trying to find that out

[Downtown Hound]

I haven't seen any opinion polls since this budget mess began. Prior to it, when the media was kissing his steroid enhanced behind all the time, it was 65%. But that was coming off of the heels of his winning the recall election and his supposed early triumphs in office. This is the first time he's really being tested.

I can tell you this, the reason why I don't think Arnold's popularity will last is because it's sort of like the Bush phenomenon after 9-11. If you listened to the media in those days, you'd think every American just thought Bush was the greatest thing since sliced bread, and no doubt many people thought that way. But a lot didn't. Many just went along with him for awhile because they thought it was the right thing to do. Arnold is kind of the same way. California has had such incompetent governors for so long that when Arnold showed up, the media hailed him as a great savior! People aren't really thinking about him too much. he's almost invisible here, because he isn't really doing anything. The more he does get into the fray of things, the more this boorishness comes out, and I know Californians well enough to know they won't stand for it forever.