I’ve always been against the Recall — I’m shocked and dismayed that we’re wasting so much of our valuable time and resources when we have so little of either. It’s really important for you to get out and vote this Tuesday!
I’ve been toying with the idea of trying to organize some kind of exit polls the night of the election. I know a lot of us have to work that day (those of us lucky enough to have jobs), but what if we all spent even just that last hour between 7 and 8 pm asking people how they voted on the way out of the polling place? I’d be happy to coordinate the results by hand if necessary.
Would anyone be willing to work on this with me? Email me at lisarein@finetuning.com if you would.
Thanks!

This came in yesterday from MoveOn.org:

***In front of a national audience last night, Arianna Huffington outlined the dramatically simple reality facing Californians: if you don’t vote against the recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger will become governor. Today we’re passing along a letter from her explaining why she dropped out of the race and is working to defeat the recall. Please get the word out that a vote for the recall is a vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger: FORWARD THIS EMAIL to friends, coworkers and family.
Dear Friend,
Last night I withdrew my candidacy from the recall race and today I am writing to sound an alarm about what is at stake in this election. I am devoting all my time and energy in these remaining six days to defeating the recall — and to defeating the Arnold Schwarzenegger-Pete Wilson forces that are trying to use the recall to hijack our state. Please help me do that by forwarding this message.
I have signed MoveOn’s “Recall No, Democracy Yes” pledge and I urge you to do the same. More than 260,000 people have pledged to do something — such as forwarding this email! — in these last days to defeat the recall and stop Arnold Schwarzenegger. Click here to sign the pledge:
http://moveon.org/pac/recall/
From the beginning of my campaign I have said that I opposed the recall on principle. It was backed by a bunch of Republican sore losers looking for a backdoor way to overturn an election they lost. Nevertheless, once the recall was set, I felt that the opportunity it offered to elect a truly independent and progressive governor was too important to let pass. And so I entered the race.

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This was just sent to me from MoveOn:

Dear fellow Californian,
California is at a crossroads. Our finances, schools and society are all in crisis. And at this, our state’s most vulnerable moment, a handful of self-interested political players are attempting an unprecedented power grab.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and his backers are seizing the recall as a once-in-a-lifetime chance for him to buy the governorship. The abbreviated race has allowed him to duck tough questions and avoid unscripted debate. He has promised voters a balanced budget without new taxes or spending cuts — an impossibility except perhaps in a Hollywood movie. He has no plan for helping California and absolutely no experience that might help him come up with one.
The recall and Schwarzenegger’s self-funded, media-driven campaign are sucker punches to our democratic system and values. We have seven full days left to fight back and a team of 250,000 people for this final push.
If you have not joined the team by signing our “No Recall” pledge, then please join us now by clicking here:
http://moveon.org/pac/recall/
If you’ve already signed, then forward this message to all your like-minded friends, coworkers and family and ask them to join us for this final one-week blitz to defeat the recall, stop Schwarzenegger and defend democracy. Let’s grow our team to 300,000 people.
Don’t be discouraged by the weekend’s far-out poll: this race is so unusual that polls are even more meaningless than they usually are. We believe this is still an incredibly close race. And it’s a fact that there are enough of us working on this to make the difference ourselves. But we’ve got to work hard: pick up the phone and call that friend you know might forget to vote, put up a sign in your window, sign up for phone banking — do whatever it takes.
Over the next seven days we’ll be highlighting several different things you can do to make a real, tangible difference in the recall election. With 300,000 people working together, we’ll each just need to influence one other person to vote against the recall who might not have without us. If we can do that, then we’ll defeat the recall by a wide margin and democracy will have a decisive victory on October 7.
Sincerely,
— Carrie, James, Joan, Peter and Wes
(The Californians of) MoveOn.org PAC
September 29th, 2003
PS: For more on how Schwarzenegger leads the pack in fundraising thanks to his own personal contributions, check out this article.