Reply #28: Arnold is governor of a Blue state

[LittleClarkie]

He needs to be responsive to his Dem constituents.

As for holiday plans, I spent two days trying to get into Cincinnati Ohio when everyone was trying to get OUT of Cincinnati to spend Christmas with my Republican sister and her very sweet, country mouse Republican inlaws. Parts of it were surreal for me. There I was, in freaking Ohio, with people who voted for Bush. And they didn't have horns. In fact, they seemed quite nice.

No heat in the house as the furnace died and they couldn't afford to fix it right then, so we space heated the house. Nobody spoke about politics, even though they knew because my sister told them that I was a Dem who'd worked for Kerry. It was a lovely couple of days. But still surreal. (Also saw a very pissed off traveler trying to get out of Milwaukee who I swear looked like Howard Dean, but that's another story.)

Speaking of influencing Republicans, my freeper-radio listening brother voted Kerry, probably due in large part to me, his Dem sister. How's that for influence.