I agree with you. Arnold gave a speech at the convention, but otherwise he was conspicuously absent from the president's campaign. He never toured nationally, and he never tried to persuade California voters either.
We had a historic opportunity to put almost anyone in the governor's chair, Gray Davis was so unpopular. We could have done a lot better. I blame Karl Rove for this miscalculation, and his stooge Parsky.
44% of California voters went big for President Bush, including yours truly. Inland California went red along with Orange And San Diego counties. We're not all a bunch of liberal wing nut kooks here. There was not a single red counties in all of Massachusetts but there are more of them than you can count in Blue State California.