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>always wondered why California keeps electing conservative governors like Reagan and Schwarzenegger Because the state's demographics and industry changed...?
by akhilcacharya 10y ago
>always wondered why California keeps electing conservative governors like Reagan and Schwarzenegger
Because the state's demographics and industry changed...? California was hardly a liberal bastion before it became solidly blue on the national level in 1992.
Even then Schwarzenegger was hardly a conservative compared to national Republicans even in 2003. And he pivoted even further left before his 2006 re-election bid.
- CalChris 10y agoSchwarzenegger pivoted left after the 2005 special election initiatives went down in flames. Then he hired a lesbian Democratic chief of staff who worked with the legislature. The result was a decent centrist administration and his solar initiatives. Later, Californians gave Brown supermajorities in both houses as the state pivoted left.