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Praise be! Mitchell Landsburg of the LA Times writes:

"This recall is bigger than California," the governor said in a speech at UCLA last month that kicked off his fight for survival. "What's happening here is part of an ongoing national effort to steal elections Republicans cannot win."

This effort, Davis said, "started with the impeachment of President Clinton when Republicans could not beat him in 1996. It continued in Florida, where they stopped the vote count, depriving thousands of Americans of the right to vote" after the presidential election in 2000. It has continued, he said, in redistricting fights in Colorado and Texas, and in "this recall to seize control of California just before the next presidential election."

Republicans and some others criticized Davis for those remarks. But they seem to have struck a chord among many California voters, especially Democrats. In a recent Field poll, more than half the voters who planned to vote against the recall agreed with the statement: "Republicans are engaged in a systematic effort to steal elections from Democratic officeholders."

"Davis has got a point," said Roy Jensen, 55, a carpenter and registered Democrat in the Bay Area town of Cupertino. Jensen said Davis was making the same point that Hillary Rodham Clinton, talking about the impeachment, made "about the vast right-wing conspiracy, and I think she was totally right."

Well, at this point it's obvious to everyone but the SCLM, isn't it?