Man, bad week for Arnold. First every poll in the state shows his ballot initiatives dying, then his first unscripted, heavily-televised voter forum turns into a live assault against him and his ideas. Props for poise under fire, but the guy and his propositions can't seem to catch a break. His poll numbers are so bad you'd think he was, well, George W. Bush (and how awesome is it to be able to say that)? And while special elections are fluid and turnout dependent, it's not a good sign when so many intuitively appealing ideas are being sunk by association with you. Much like Bush's strange penchant for talking people out of the Social Security plan he was trying to talk them into, Arnold's become his own worst enemy. A variety of polls have now found that the more he advocates for the propositions, the more voters oppose them. That's gotta hurt -- who wants to be kryptonite to their own agenda?
