All the factors, all the indicators, look to me like they are pointing toward record spending. |
Chances are he doesn't have the resources to self-finance at a high level. |
He hasn't had the experience of running statewide elections, much less winning them. When you come from a district with 11 percent Republicans where the whole ball game is winning the Democratic primary, you don't develop the instincts you need for statewide politics. |
He's now a major player in this race. He deserves to have the full spotlight put on his family. |
In both cases, he did it with very strong bipartisan backing. But they wrongly and foolishly extrapolated from the recall and the Prop. 57-58 and 66 campaigns that this guy was a masterful campaigner who could sell ice to Eskimos and could sell pork pies in a synagogue. |
It's just never been proven you can reduce the amount of money that flows into politics, no matter how hard you try. |
Only a handful of Democrats know either one of the candidates. Both of them are starting virtually from scratch. |
Phil better take notice. If he wants to try to replicate the Roberti campaign of 1994, he's up against a team that knows how to fight back. I've been accused of a lot of things, but not being willing to fight back isn't one of them. |
Phil is running a Walter Mondale campaign -- nail down the special-interest groups early, get all the big-name officeholders to endorse you and expect it will roll you into office. It didn't work for Mondale -- and he lost 49 states. |
Roland was responsible for Gray becoming governor. |
That's why Arnold has loaded up his campaign with a bunch of Bush-Cheney operatives. They really understand how to appeal to voters in the bluest state in America. |
The timing was not accidental. There's more to come. |
They became active detractors and tried to do him damage. |
They can't snap their fingers and do symbolic things and turn it all around. It ain't that easy -- particularly when you have the antipathy that now exists against him. |
They feel he got rolled on the worker's comp agreement. They think he got rolled on the budget. |