Schwarzenegger's Job Approval High, Poll Finds (running about even with Boxer...)

[The Straight Story]

Schwarzenegger's Job Approval High, Poll Finds

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's job rating is still high, despite what some are describing as an unproductive year in the state capital.

A new Field Poll says 56 percent of voters think Schwarzenegger is doing a good job. Just 32 percent disapprove.

The survey released this morning was conducted over a ten-day period through Sunday. It ended just as the state's wildfire emergency began.

The poll says Schwarzenegger is running about even with U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer in a hypothetical matchup.

http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=34512

[Milo_Bloom]

1. That would be a rough battle..

I know who I would vote for (Boxer) but I also know a lot of people who would support Arnold, many of them democrats. Eep.

[book_worm]

15. too many Californians seem to be "star crazy" and I think it would be an epic battle too

but that Arnold could win it. He would probably win an open seat--especially if Feinstein retired.

[BrklynLib at work]

2. Schwarzenegger strikes me as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Something about him I could never trust.

He brings "Manchurian Candidate" to my mind...

[tiptoe]

8. Yep. See post #6 for background links. nt

[BrklynLib at work]

18. Wow. Thanks for all that info. I will be sure to pass it on to my CA friends.

[tiptoe]

20. alright!

Californians need to know!

Please RECOMMEND the thread for the INFO and periodically KICK for continued exposure.

thanx.

[BrklynLib at work]

23. Will do...

[tiptoe]

21. heh, another thing...

Are you familiar with the LEVER voting machines in NY?

[BrklynLib at work]

24. Yes, of course. Why do you ask?.

[tiptoe]

27. Well...

I tried sending a private message.

Are you not able to receive private messages at this time?

[AndyTiedye]

3. Of Course the Repiggies Will Go After Boxer, She's One of the Best We Have

and the Mighty Slime Machine is still so in love with Arnie that he would be very difficult to beat.

[tiptoe]

17. Repiggies can be 'slaughtered' with the truth re Sch*zenegger -- see posts 6 and 13 (and K&R please)

Help eliminate 'war...make it 'Sch*zenegger'

[Cleita]

4. Who did this poll? The Heritage Foundation?

They didn't poll me. Schwarzenegger's record is worse than Pete Wilson's in setting this state backwards. He hasn't accomplished any more than Grey Davis could in meeting the real problems this state has. He just gets the publicity out that he's doing a great job. That's what he learned to do as a movie star.

btw the issue that got Grey Davis in trouble, the energy situation here hasn't gotten better but worse. My family's electrical bill has tripled since he became governor. No doubt whoever is bleeding this state dry after Enron is benefitting from the wonderful Governorship of Herr Schwarzenegger.

[book_worm]

16. Field Poll is one of the oldest independent polling firms in California

And yes, his record is awful, but everybody on DU predicted he couldn't win a full term after that disastrous first couple of years he had as governor, and he did by a large margin.

[Cleita]

22. There's been a question about the integrity of our vote since

Kevin Shelley was eighty-sixed as Secretary of State shortly after Arnold began his reign and the new more neo-con friendly SOS reversed everything that Kevin was doing to make our vote more transparent and accurate. Of course our new elected SOS is finishing Kevin's job so maybe we will have an uncorrupted election the next time.

[tiptoe]

19. "Pollster guilty of fake data conspiracy" (09/07/06)

Heh, media manipulation -- newspapers, tv...polls? -- is *Co's spite for democracy.

Pollster guilty of fake data conspiracy

[bdamomma]

5. one disastrous event does not make a man.

Is Schwarzenegger's rating high because he showed leadership during those devasting fires??

[tiptoe]

6. Californians aren't aware of the Sch*zenegger's $9B fraud (responsible for reduced services) &

his anti-democracy, pro-Diebold e-vote machines efforts.

Boxer/candidates will just have to inform the California public of Sch*zenegger's anti-California, pro-Bush/Neocon interests. Sch*zenegger's advisor was Pete Wilson, designer of the "buggy" energy de-regulation program (inherited by Gray Davis) that led to the gamed-ripoff of $9 Billion (looking back, a brief intra-hour energy spike during the summer just before Gray Davis took office...has been suspected of being a test of Wilson's deregulation-system "bug" IIRC). California eventually borrowed $11 Billion against its $91B General Fund, strapping needed government programs of funding. Police and Fire service interests sought extra funding via proposition on November's ballot. It failed...and I wonder if local-revenue-generating DUIs are being dished out "extra firmly" as a result.

Sch*zenegger is no hero to California; the background (including neophyte-Gov Sch*zenegger's first-week-in-office "settling" of Lt Gov Bustamante's lawsuit for pennies-on-the-$) first appeared on the Internet — pre- and post-Recall Election — and probably has not yet been fully realized by Californians.

Also: Bill, I don't think California voters are/were fickle. Here's why... Peace Patriot

...
Due to corporate news monopoly malfeasance, the general population had not been informed about Schwarzenegger's meeting with Kenneth Lay/Enron in May 2001, to plot all this (Enron stole $9 billion from Calif., thus getting Davis in trouble with the voters due to budget shortfall--and Lay wanted this debt to be forgiven), and there was not enough time for alternative news sources to get the word out that Schwarz was a Bush Cartel shill. Time magazine put Schwarz on its cover during this very short campaign, and Larry King and others gave Schwarz (already famous from his movies) millions and millions of dollars in additional free publicity. They almost didn't need electronic vote-stealing, but they had it all set up, if needed--and had ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE minor candidates to shave votes onto (away from the main opposition, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante).
...

See also video: The Shock Doctrine -- Naomi Klein is interviewed on Book TV CSPAN2 and post #3 references.

Help eliminate 'war'...Make it 'Sch*zenegger'.

[Cleita]

7. Possibly. Look what 9/11 did for Giuliani.

Wait until the smoke blows over and the aid promised doesn't come and maybe through no fault of his own, but through lack of support from the federal government. Then you will see what Ahnold really has done for the fire victims.

[Milo_Bloom]

9. Unfortunately, no.

The poll was taken BEFORE the fires. I fear his rating will only go up.

[tiptoe]

10. Not if the truth about his fraud(s) gets out. nt

[Milo_Bloom]

11. I'm not quite sure I get it....

I read your other post #6 and believe me, I don't WANT Arnold, never voted for him and wouldn't vote for him, but I still don't quite get the connection of this 9 billion dollar fraud.

Are you claiming that there was a plot between Ken Lay/ Arnold / Pete Wilson to orchestrate the recall and get Arnold in office???

[tiptoe]

13. Dot-connecting...

The FBI-recovered Enron computer email disclosed a May 17, 2001 meeting between Sch*zenegger and Ken Lay (i.e. after the $Billions had already been gamed-stolen) and almost-immediately upon Lt. Gov Bustamante announcing he was filing a lawsuit in an attempt to recover the stolen funds via California's Unfair Business Practices Act (after FERC commissioners — two of three appointed by Bush on recommendation of Ken Lay! — spurned Gray Davis' efforts at the federal level)...and BEFORE Sch*zenegger's "decision" to become a Recall Election candidate.

Timeline:
May 2, 2001: GOV. CRUZ BUSTAMANTE SUES TO STEM ENERGY CRISIS, ACCUSES ENERGY CARTEL OF ILLEGAL PRICE-FIXING
May 17, 2001: (from "Arnold Unplugged - It's Hasta la Vista to $9 Billion if the Governator is Selected" by Greg Palast, Oct 4, 2003)

The wannabe governor has yet to deny that on May 17, 2001, at the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles, he had consensual political intercourse with Enron chieftain Kenneth Lay. Also frolicking with Arnold and Ken was convicted stock swindler Mike Milken.

Now, thirty-four pages of internal Enron memoranda have just come through this reporter's fax machine tell all about the tryst between Maria's husband and the corporate con men. It turns out that Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off.

Here's the story Arnold doesn't want you to hear. The biggest single threat to Ken Lay and the electricity lords is a private lawsuit filed last year under California's unique Civil Code provision 17200, the "Unfair Business Practices Act." This litigation, heading to trial now in Los Angeles, would make the power companies return the $9 billion they filched from California electricity and gas customers.

Aug 7, 2003

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- After dropping hints about his political ambitions, movie action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Wednesday that he will run for California governor in October's recall election.

The surprise announcement came during a Wednesday afternoon taping of NBC's "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno which was scheduled to air Wednesday night. Prior to the taping, it had been widely speculated that Schwarzenegger, 56, would announce he would not run.

BBC investigator, Greg Palast, broke the FBI/Enron story on the net and predicted what would happen if Sch*zenegger were elected. Palast was, unfortunately, spot on: Sch*zenegger took care of Ken Lay-&-energy-friends' interests by overriding Bustamante's authority and settling the latter's lawsuit in the very first week in office. Pete Wilson apparently had been an advisor to Sch*zenegger as well as the designer of the deregulation plan itself (about which Wilson had been informed of its imperfection — 'Let the democrats fix it.')

Arnold's main purpose for "running" -- at least a primary one -- seems to have been securing the $9B for the crooks by overriding Bustamante's authority. Later, Sch*zenegger would lead efforts to replace democratic SoS Kevin Shelley with appointee Bruce MacPherson, charged with re-certifying Diebold voting machines that Shelley had de-certified in four counties. These two tasks — huge for a "neophyte" politician, with Neocon destabilization/bankrupting of California as goal — are enough to have been Sch*zenegger's motivations for running.

Help eliminate 'war'...Make it 'Sch*zenegger'.

[NV Whino]

12. Where the hell do they take these polls?

There is no way Arnold is "about even" with Boxer's approval rating.

[tiptoe]

14. K & R !! for info

[BrklynLib at work]

25. K&R for more exposure...

[Cha]

26. This sounds like 1984 Propoganda

Shite to me..

[CreekDog]

28. You think he wants to be in the Senate, in DC much of the time?

He's been governor. He's not going for that. Arnold doesn't want to be 1 of a 100.

[tiptoe]

29. UP