With 135 candidates, it started out as a free-for-all. Now, California-s recall looks like politics as usual. If Democratic Governor Gray Davis is recalled in Tuesday-s election, polls show Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger is his likely replacement. Political pros say that-s turning it into a two-candidate contest. CNN calls it -Davis versus Goliath.- With Presidential politics heating up, what-s at stake for the major parties? Are right-wing conservatives being left behind? Why would anyone want to be Governor of California at a time like this? We hear from political reporters, consultants, and commentators, a tax reform lobbyist, and the leaders of the California Republican and Democratic Parties.
- Reporter's Notebook: Germany is a Guy, France is a Woman
First Lady Laura Bush is in France on what the French press is calling a -fence-mending tour of Europe.- Though she may have held out her hand to Jacques Chirac, the last time President Bush had the chance, he gave the French President the cold shoulder. That was a stark contrast to the -muscular handshake- Bush exchanged with Germany-s Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein thinks she knows why.
Marinucci's article on Bustamante's final push
California Budget
California Republican Party Endorses Schwarzenegger
Gallup Poll on Recall, Schwarzenegger
Bernstein's article on French, Germans