Of those individuals I'd say 75% of them are OPPOSED to 57/58, but they are fiercly loyal to Arnold. So they passed out the Arnold material touting 57/58 and wore the "YES on 57/58" stickers.
They are conflicted. I suspect some will end up voting for the measures even though they hate 57 and feel that Arnold caved in on 58 by dropping the Spending Cap and instead settling for a Balanced Budget Amendment which allows the Democrats to continue to raise spending 'according to revenues' - which just means more accounting gimmicks from the Democrats in the legislature.
I really am clueless as to how 57/58 will do. Most polls show it losing, but Democrats oppose it while Republicans narrowly support it, because they want to help Arnold.
This one is tough for me - I voted NO on both... but I am a little sympathetic to Arnold in the fact that I think he recognizes the Democrats suck and he believes he could never get a spending cap through so he took what he thought he could get which was better than a tax increase.
But in good conscience I can't vote for a proposal which to be honest was almost exactly that of Gray Davis which we all abhorred... just pushing off the cuts we need in spending and trying to refinance the debt with bonds.
That is horribly anti-fiscal conservatism... yet, is it better than a tax increase? I guess so, but what I want is for the Democrats to get the message that Arnold would have stumped against them up and down the state for refusing to cut spending and made them take the hits - instead of coming up with a $15 billion bond plan that protects their spending addiction.