THOMAS D. ELIAS The entire recall campaign targeting Gov. Gavin Newsom has been built for months on the presumption that many, if not most, Californians are unhappy with how things are going, dissatisfied with their own lives and losing hope for a solid future here. This, goes the premise, will make them leap to change leaders barely a year before the next regular election would give them the same option anyway. Now come two university-level studies that bode very well for Newsom. Both conclude the mass âCalifornia Exodusâ that this stateâs Republican politicians steadily bemoan is largely a fiction and the vast majority of todayâs residents still believe in the California âdreamâ and has strong hope for the future.