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SAN FRANCISCO - Republican candidate Peter Ueberroth is dropping out of California gubernatorial recall race, a campaign source close to Ueberroth said Tuesday. The latest poll shows him trailing badly.

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Ueberroth canceled several radio interviews Tuesday morning and scheduled a 1 p.m. news conference "to discuss the future of his campaign." A campaign source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that Ueberroth was withdrawing.

The source said Ueberroth will not immediately endorse another candidate. Instead, he will ask to meet with the other candidates and will endorse the one he believes has the best plan to create jobs, the source said.

Todd Harris, spokesman for Arnold Schwarzenegger, the leading Republican in the recall race, said Schwarzenegger looks forward to meeting with Ueberroth. Representatives of state Sen. Tom McClintock, the other major Republican in the race, did not immediately comment.

Ueberroth was hailed as an experienced "grownup" in the chaotic effort to unseat Gov. Gray Davis (news - web sites), but the former baseball commissioner and chief of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games (news - web sites) failed to gain traction among voters.

His move came the same day a new Field Poll showed he garnered support from just 5 percent of the voters polled, far behind Schwarzenegger and the leader, Democrat Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante.

Critics said his own deep pockets and contributions from his wealthy friends were all that kept his campaign viable. Ueberroth raised $3,106,481, including $1 million of his own money.

Ueberroth himself said he didn't do well in his first debate, and acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press last week that he got "frustrated with all the hoopla." Another Republican, 2002 gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon, dropped out of the race Aug. 23.

The Field Poll released Tuesday also showed Bustamante has opened a slim lead over Schwarzenegger 30 percent to 25 percent. Last month, Bustamante had 25 percent and Schwarzenegger had 22 percent.

In third place, McClintock, the leading conservative in the race, was at 13 percent after gaining four points. That increase was within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

It also found 55 percent of likely voters support ousting Davis, down from 58 percent in an August poll, another difference within the poll's margin of error.

The poll, conducted over a five-day period ending Sunday, was drawn from telephone interviews with 505 likely voters. After Ueberroth with support of 5 percent in the poll, came columnist Arianna Huffington with 3 percent and Green Party candidate Peter Camejo was favored by 2 percent.

The results, just a month before the Oct. 7 vote, came as Bustamante, McClintock, Huffington and Camejo prepared to meet for the campaign's second debate on Tuesday.

Davis' campaign interpreted the results as a gain for the governor.

"We see support for the recall fading," said Gabriel Sanchez, a spokesman for the Davis camp.

The poll also showed support for Davis's efforts to fight the recall increasing substantially.

A month ago, 42 percent thought Davis should simply resign, while only 33 percent feel that way now, according to the poll. The biggest shift in that area was among Republicans. Last month only 26 percent of Republicans said Davis should fight the recall. This month the number was up to 41 percent.

Bustamante's favorability number remained at 40 percent, but an increasing number of people, 49 percent, had formed an unfavorable opinion of him. Only 40 percent saw the lieutenant governor in an unfavorable light last month.

The poll showed Bustamante picking up support among women, however, with 35 percent supporting him, compared with 28 percent last month. Schwarzenegger's support among women remained at 22 percent.

Schwarzenegger spokesman Todd Harris said the poll showed that among candidates to replace Davis "this is a two-man race" and Schwarzenegger is the only Republican with a chance to win.

The actor did not appear to have benefited significantly, however, from the departure of Republican businessman Bill Simon from the race since the previous Field Poll. Simon had 8 percent support before dropping out.

And McClintock's solid, third-place showing underscored just how problematic his candidacy continues to be for Schwarzenegger. The legislator has steadfastly refused to step aside, even as Republican leaders have urged the party to unite behind the strongest candidate or risk a Bustamante victory.

At his first town hall-style meeting Monday, Schwarzenegger repeated his earlier comments that, mathematically speaking, it would be better for him if there were fewer candidates in the race. But he balked at a questioner's suggestion that he cut a deal with McClintock and perhaps offer the legislator a job in a Schwarzenegger administration to get him to quit the campaign.

"I'm not about to call him and say get out of the race," Schwarzenegger said, adding that to do so would be "very presumptuous."

On women's issues he expressed support for flexible hours and equal pay for equal work, while on immigration he repeated that he would seek to find a way to legalize the status of illegal immigrants, perhaps through a guest worker program.

Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver, campaigned at a voter-registration event at a Wal-Mart in the Sacramento suburb of Natomas, but her appearance was overwhelmed by a dozen union members opposed to the recall.

At one point the group chanted, "Yes on pants, no on recall," a reference to a 1988 Playboy magazine interview in which Schwarzenegger said he inherited his father's distaste for women's slacks.

"We're here to give our message to Mrs. Schwarzenegger that we're against the recall," said Buck Wilson, a carpenter. Shriver was wearing pants.

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