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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The California gubernatorial recall election is less than a day away and the crystal ball reading California's future is anything but clear. Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger still leads in opinion polls but his numbers have slipped in the wake of sexual harassment claims made against him in the past few days. A Knight-Ridder/NBC poll released Sunday still had 54 percent saying they would vote to oust Governor Gray Davis, while 41 percent said they oppose recalling him. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points. But the poll -- taken Wednesday through Saturday -- showed support for the recall slipping after the accusations against Schwarzenegger emerged. Among replacement candidates, Schwarzenegger drew the support of 37 percent of voters surveyed; Democrat Cruz Bustamante had 29 percent; and Republican Tom McClintock, 15 percent. Bustamante said his internal polls show both he and Davis gaining ground. Voters in California face a two-part ballot in Tuesday's recall. The first part asks them whether they want to remove Davis, a Democrat who won a second term last November, from office; the second includes a list of 135 possible replacements. (Interactive: How the ballot works) In Washington, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers of Michigan, sent a letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft, asking him to send investigators to monitor the recall vote. "It is my urgent belief that federal investigators are critical to a fair and just election process, and that without their immediate oversight and intervention, California will suffer irreparable damage equal to the debacle of Florida during the 2000 presidential election." Schwarzenegger aides blame Davis team for leaks Schwarzenegger's campaign blamed Davis for allegations that the actor-bodybuilder groped numerous women during his career, while Davis called on Schwarzenegger to rebut the reports "in detail." In an interview with ABC, taped Saturday and aired Sunday, Schwarzenegger called those allegations "campaign trickery." But The Los Angeles Times reported in its Sunday editions that four more women have come forward with stories of Schwarzenegger grabbing their breasts or buttocks in alleged incidents between 1979 and 2000, bringing to 15 the total number of women who have raised such complaints.
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