There is a new mood among California Republicans, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

These are heady days for the California Republican Party, a once bitterly divided band that is unified, energized and relentlessly upbeat today.

The difference: California’s Republicans, who failed to win a single statewide office in 2002 for the first time in nearly half a century, are cheering on popular Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as he takes to the road to push his reform agenda, and following a confident President Bush as he does the same on the national front.