What in the hell is going on in California? [View All]

It seems just a few months ago I was reading articles stating that even though California's budget was really screwed - everyone understood that it was caused by fraudulent electrical distributors in collusion with Enron and a few other major Repuke donors - but the silver lining was that it would be decades before any repuke would ever be able to gain high elected office either for or from that state.

Now Ah-nold - the Nazi, sex-maniac, groper with no plan or experience in governance, much less taking control of the fifth largest economy in the world that is close to bankruptcy - is ahead in the polls just a few days from the election - and I'm being asked to donate money to help get the word out to California voters explaining the truth about Ah-nold.

I donated. That's not the problem. What I want to know is how in the hell did this happen? I can't help but suspect there's been some monumental miscalculation and/or stupidity either in the Cal democratic party and/or the national dem leadership.

Maybe I'm way off base on this and there's some other explanation. If so, could someone who understands these things better than me explain why this is happening?