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Haven't most Republicans who don't take climate change very seriously done pretty well in deep-red districts in California? People like Rep. McCarthy and forme

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > Haven't most Republicans who don't take climate change very seriously done pretty well in deep-red districts in California? Deep-red districts are not statewide office. The last two Republicans to be elected to statewide office in California were Schwarzenegger (Governor) and Steve Poizner (Insurance Commissioner), both reelected in 2006. Suggesting that Schwarzenegger’s positions weren’t important to appeal to CA voters and limited his political prospects is...not necessarily absolutely inconsistent with the evidence (given the small data set and potential confounding factors), but definitely also not supported by it.
  • danans 5y ago
    Schwarzenegger definitely got a lot of centrist Democratic leaning voters in CA with his pro-environment stances, so I'd agree that it helped him politically in CA. His initial election was sort of a fluke anyways created by the nutty CA recall process, but he did stay in office for 8 years. He was really a different sort of politician than standard pro-fossil fuel Republicans, and perceived by different standards by voters across the electorate.