IT’S VOTING TIME IN CALIFORNIA. While you wait for the results, some postcards from the edge of recall: Pay to Play to the End. Governor Gray Davis marked the final day of campaigning with a big rally in downtown San Francisco. He did the same event last November, at the end of his reelection effort. A year ago, Davis operatives had to pay the local homeless $50 a head to come out to the rally, to build up the crowd (no word yet if the Davis team was handing out cash this time around). Davis did draw a large crowd of firefighters at his rally. However, many of them were from out of state, attending a convention. It’s only fitting: the firefighters’ unions heavily underwrote his anti-recall effort.

How Many I’s in Yentl? Either Davis pulls off the last-minute miracle, or the results confirm what the polls suggest: he’s a goner, and the first American governor to be recalled since the 1920s. Such was his luck that the star-crossed Davis even had a tough time getting the stars to align properly. Here’s what Barbra Streisand wrote on her website: “Regardless of what you think about Grey [sic] Davis, we should all be able to agree that we must now stop this attempted hijacking of the democratic process.” That’s “Gray,” Babs: no “e.”