It seems my prediction for the CA recall was wrong - and by a healthy margin. I really thought that once voters took a longer look at Arnold they'd realize they didn't have it so bad with Davis. Wrong. Even the late revelations about abusive behavior toward women didn't really change anything (Arnold took a surprising percentage of women voters - 44%, compared to 35% for Bustamante). Click here for the LA Times exit poll.

Bush was in the state yesterday and it really has been interesting to see so-called social conservatives give up a lot of their deeply held moral values and vote for Arnold, even though his social policies are much much closer to Clinton than Bush or Reagan. A fiscal conservative? What politician isn't in California these days. Just goes to show if it looks like you're a winner, people will fall in line. Will it make any difference in 2004? I doubt it.