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After watching Arnold Schwarzenegger being interviewed over the weekend on the “Tom Sullivan Show,” I’ve given up the long-held delusion that Arnold would ride the white horse to the White House. He could well do that, even in President Obama’s administration. But he will bring to that now only a charismatic novelty. And the White House already has one: President Obama.

As Arnold ends his term in November, a strange symmetry is occurring in California. When he first ran for governor, Arnold even got support from the most deeply conservative of the religious right in the heartland because he was a Hollywood hottie and suggested Ronald Reagan, the California governor who was also a Hollywood star. Reagan was followed by Jerry Brown as governor. What is odd this time around is that Arnold could well be followed by the same Jerry Brown, who is running again.

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