Orange County and San Bernadino County are Republican counties. They are also conservative counties. Quit trying to pretend that conservatives showed up in record numbers; they didn't. Turnout was pretty light in my (extremely conservative) district.
Well, there are still a few hundred thousand ballots to count, but notwithstanding that, you are wrong.
As of this afternoon's count, San Diego County turned out 101,839 more voters than 2002. Orange County, 105,427. Riverside, 62,884. And San Bernardino, 29,228.
Earlier reports that these counties did not turn out were based on early ballot counts and any conclusions made from them were grossly premature.
On the other hand, the Democrat counties showed substantially greater turnout than the Republican counties. Was that because the Republican GOTV helped their effort by actually targeting Democrats-for-Arnold and Democrats-For-RebuildCalifornia? It sure looks that way.