Governor!

Governor Schwarzenegger, it is. Despite the groping stories of the last five days of the campaign, the closing scenes of the Arnold bus tour were a celebrity frenzy that even Ben and J-Lo couldn’t match. The bus tour was a masterstroke. Every political reporter in America wanted to be part of that caravan, which made John McCain’s faux-bohemian “Straight Talk Express” of 2000 seem decidedly off Broadway by comparison. Politicians and their campaign managers blithely talk of creating a bandwagon effect. Arnold generated a steamroller, culminating in the largest political rally in years at the capitol in Sacramento on the Sunday before Election Day.

Mr, Hayward is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise institute in Washington, and senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco.

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Steven F. Hayward

Steven F. Hayward is the Edward Gaylord Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Governor Schwarzenegger, it is. Despite the groping stories of the last five days of the campaign, the closing scenes of the Arnold bus tour were a celebrity frenzy that even Ben and J-Lo couldn’t match. The bus tour was a masterstroke. Every political reporter in America wanted to be part of that caravan, which made John McCain’s faux-bohemian “Straight Talk Express” of 2000 seem decidedly off Broadway by comparison. Politicians and their campaign managers blithely talk of creating a bandwagon effect. Arnold generated a steamroller, culminating in the largest political rally in years at the capitol in Sacramento on the Sunday before Election Day.

Mr, Hayward is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise institute in Washington, and senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco.