There will be a contested Democratic primary (for governor). I don’t know if that influences turnout, but if it does, that would be helpful to Reiner. On the other hand, if there are a lot...

The speaker has very little in the way of carrots or sticks.

He’s got to charm the pants off the delegates. That would help. The question is: How does he do it?

The reality of the situation is that there is nothing illegal about doing it,

The more the conservative right is vocally angry, the more centrist he will look.

They felt that it would release the stranglehold that partisanship had on government,

The key saying for Republicans to remember here is that winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

Schwarzenegger is clearly annoyed as he asked that the president not come until after the election because he did not want to compete for cash.

Their polling must be telling them that he’s a drag on his own initiative. How have the mighty fallen.

Three words: George W. Bush. His personality to a large extent got him his victory.

He made the mistake of taking on the first responders. That was just plain crazy.

Every day in office, he became less and less an action hero and more and more another politician. He had to. But he promised not to.

I think it’s flat-out a referendum on Arnold and his agenda. I don’t think there’s any way around that. He’s made it so by his own rhetoric and his own positioning.

This is the legacy of term limits everybody against everybody else. There’s just no way of knowing how the election will shape up.

Just because a person is a celebrity, he or she does not have to give up his or her first amendment rights, it’s as simple as that.

My guess is he’s going to stay away from anointing candidates, having been burned once. He’s not stupid. If he wants to run for the center, he can’t embrace a set of candidates against the...

The permutations and combinations are endless. It’s like a game of three-dimensional chess.

[Leading Democrats were on Schwarzenegger’s side then. That collapsed this year. A series of proposals by the governor antagonized teachers, nurses, police officers and firefighters. Since March, they have run a barrage of TV spots...

Just because he’s declaring now doesn’t mean he has to run. Look what happened (in the recall campaign) when everybody thought he wasn’t going to run and he decided on the Leno show he was.

I think he understands he needs to build a record if he is running for re-election and a legacy if he is not. He has taken a page from the Pat Brown playbook.

red meat for the party faithful and will make the Democrats go sky high.

There has to be some real indication that we’re moving the troops out. There has to be an indication that casualties are tapering off.

Is there election fatigue?