“We won. They lost. Could you just write that once?”

That was Democratic/Labor strategist Gale Kaufman’s one request this morning from those of us in the Capitol press corps. The finality of her sentiment– her side as winners, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s camp as the losers on Election Day– is one that seems to contrast with an often repeated thought in recent days: that everyone now simply needs to find a way to get along and get to work on the state’s problems.

Interestingly enough, the need to “get along” is exactly what it sounds like the governor has decided to do, said his deputy chief of staff Rob Stutzman this afternoon.

“The voters of this state want the problems of this state to be resolved here in Sacramento,” said Stutzman. But he nonetheless drew a not too subtle line back to the Legislature itself, saying that the governor will have to “cajole” lawmakers to do their part.

And the “day after” story in much of the media is likely to focus on whether Governor Schwarzenegger is sorry that he dragged the state through an election, and/or whether he regrets it.

Union leaders, in a morning news conference at the California Teachers Association headquarters, clearly said they think an apology is due. They also were pretty proud of their victory over Team Arnold.

But Schwarzenegger spokesman Rob Stutzman said the governor doesn’t see the need to apologize, and he dismissed the union comments as merely the day’s “talking points.”

The ink isn’t even dry on the election returns (and not all absentee ballots have been counted)… so don’t expect perfect harmony inside the hallways of the Capitol anytime soon. And that fact alone leaves one to imagine what it’ll be like inside the governor’s private office tomorrow, when he’s scheduled to sit down with the four legislative leaders and talk about what’s next.