I te mutunga o te pōtitanga i te 7 o Noema 2006, ka rere a Schwarzenegger mō te pōtitanga anō ki te kaitono mana kāwanatanga o California, a Phil Angelides, i ngā pōtitanga o te tau 2006. Ahakoa te tau pōtitanga mō te rōpū Republican, i riro a Schwarzenegger i te pōtitanga anō me te 56.0% o te pōti i whakaritea ki te 38.9% mō Angelides, he tawhiti o te 1 miriona pōti. I tēnei wā, he maha ngā kaiwhakatairanga i kite i a Schwarzenegger e neke atu ana i te taha matau ki te pokapū o te ao tōrangapū. I muri i te whakarongo ki tētahi kōrero a Schwarzenegger i te 2006 Martin Luther King Jr. parakuihi, ka mea a San Francisco Gavin Newsom, "Kei te riro ia hei Democrat [...] kei te hoki ia ki te pokapū. Ki taku whakaaro ko te pokapū maui".
Ko te tau 2006