No, no, no. He would not. Davis would stay in office. Arnold has also appealed to mild democrats...alot of them. If you took the conservative vote away from Arnold, Bustamante would win, or the recall would fail...one or the other. Look man, I don't agree with Arnold on a lot of issues. I don't worship hollywierd. But I can take a loss to move to higher ground. McClintock cannot win in that state, atleast right now.
I think the prevailing premise here is that Arnold needs to win the conservative vote, not that he automatically gets it by simply by being Arnold, or R, or whatever. Anyway McClintock had the conservatives' votes before Arnold even backed the recall or entered the race. Remember? Maybe some Arnold supporters are in need of a can of "Total-Recall" ;-)