I would like to confess my idiocy as a Californian, and ask for a sampling of others who may be inclined to confess the same -- I'm seriously interested in where I went wrong on this point, and it is relevant to the thread:

Yesterday I learned from a foreign newspaper that Arnold ran the losing Bush-Cheney campaign in California in 2000, and that he has some history, small or otherwise, of consulting Karl Rove (which I loooked into after hearing it from Bobert, giving credit where credit is due.)

Last night I read my local (Republican-leaning) newspaper (a monopoly holder), and the editorial described Governor Arnold as "the quintessential outsider."

SO: I'm wondering, and if other Californians would confess: Did you know both of those facts about Arnold before the election?