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I have a number of friends who worked on either Kaloogian's "Recall Gray Davis Committee" or Bill Simon's primary or general election campaigns who went on to work in the Schwarzenegger Administration.

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.

Since only pro-57/58 ads are being show on TV and heard on the radio, I'm sure the gap is narrowing between the NOs and YESes. The commercials are slick and effective. How much so remains to be seen. If the NOs win, it won't be by much. Bonds are a hard sell for conservatives. It'll be interesting to see which party voted for it more.

The 57-58 commercials don't offend me like the crap put out by the pro-56 fools.

But it was good to see a strong anti-56 campaign at the convention. I managed to score a NO ON 56 button.

The news coverage I managed to see was rather scant, particularly on the Kaloogian rally. Too much focus on gay marriage, gay marriage, and gay marriage. Somehow the news crews found all the log cabin Republicans to express their disappointment in Arnold coming down on the San Francisco gay marriage outrage. Gag.