The final numbers for November's election are now posted on the Secretary of State's website, and according to the final tally, Gov. Schwarzenegger carried Orange County with 69.7% of the vote. Writing at California Progress Report, Frank D. Russo describes the gov's margin of victory in OC as "bone crushing", but points out that Phil Angelides bones were crushed to even finer dust elsewhere.
[Schwarzenegger] carried other counties outside of the Orange Curtain by higher margins, including 14 r
​Home for the summer with way too much free time on my hands after a long and miserable year at Chico State in Northern California, I quickly discovered that pretty much everyone I knew in Orange County had either moved away or moved on. I needed a hobby I could do by myself in my free time that isn't associated with hairy palms or blindness. After considering all the summer recreation standards--becoming a beach bum, working out, starting a meth lab, drinking myself into oblivion, founding a
