By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney take note: The way to win over voters during political debates is by using humor…according to Arnold Schwarzenegger!

The 65-year-old actor has been touring the country promoting his new memoir Total Recall.

Earlier this week he delighted fans in Washington D.C. by telling them how he rattled his competition and swayed voters during debates while running for governor of California in 2003.

During the election Schwarzenegger – a Republican candidate – was up against, among others, journalist Arianna Huffington, who was running as an independent.

In video obtained by Breaking Celebrity News he told the Washington Post correspondent: “I felt when I was debating, since my strength was not policy in 2003. My strength was, me. And so therefore I went there and did not let myself get down to policy details.

“I could tell them: ‘Yes I want to do health care reform. Yes I want to do immigration reform… But when it got into the details I’d rather use comedy, use humor. That was the important thing.

“That’s why Arianna Huffington played into all my stuff. She was perfect.”

Schwarzenegger then launches into a hilarious impression of The Huffington Post founder. He says: “She kept whining: ‘Oh Arnold, you always say this. And you’re always this. You’re terrible. You’re making so much money’.”