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Dick Morris: Schwarzenegger a Lame Duck
The Election Day defeat of four initiatives strongly backed by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has catapulted the once popular Republican into lame duck status - according to top political strategist Dick Morris. "His power has always been the ability to tell the legislature to get lost and go over their heads to the people," Morris told ABC Radio's Sean Hannity. "Now he seems to have lost that power." Morris said Schwarzenegger is "a lame duck now because he can't deal with the legislature and he can't win a ballot proposition." "He might get reelected because people don't trust their legislature and want a governor to hold it in line," he predicted. "But his effectiveness is severely compromised."
Story Continues Below The one-time top advisor to Bill and Hillary Clinton blamed California voters for blowing their chance for real reform. Speaking of the proposition that would have dramatically altered reapportionment rules, Morris said: "We had a chance to recapture democracy by getting 54 congressman in California elected according to impartial lines as opposed to stacked lines. And the people of California blew it." He said another Schwarzenegger-backed initiative would have rescued the Golden State's flagging educational system. "There is nothing wrong with public schools that the abolition of teacher tenure wouldn't have solved," Morris said. "And Californians deliberately passed that up." Editor's note:
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