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Tuesday 9 October 2012

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For a policeman's son born in a tiny village near Graz, Austria, Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger has done pretty well for himself. On August 6, 2003 he announced his candidacy in California's recall election on NBC's "Jay Leno Show." On the night of October 7 the Austrian-American actor made his victory speech in Los Angeles, introduced by Jay Leno. Although Gray Davis had made fun of Arnold's Austrian accent during the race, Schwarzenegger managed to turn the contest into a two-man race between him and Davis, and to prove that the political scene in California is a horse of a different color (zu Deutsch: Da pfeifft es aus einem anderen Loch).Immediately after Schwarzenegger's announcement we were inundated with movie-title puns such as Total Recall and Governator, but in the end, Arnold proved the joke was on Gray Davis. To cast a little more light on the main figure in this amazing election, here is a brief biography with some related links on the topic of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a political figure, and even some related German vocabulary.