[frmrda]

Coop, the important thing here is the poll question about Riordan - he crushes Davis. The GOP voters out there could screw up a one-car funeral. Davis was (an may still be hopefully) ripe for the picking, but the GOP had to choose someone who can easily be painted as a "right-wing extremist" in a state that is overwhelmingly Democratic. Talk about snatching defeat from the jowls of victory.

I really do hope you can throw these words in my face in November, and say I told you so, but I doubt it. A win by Davis, no matter how small the margin, would prove the ineptitude of the GOP and its voters in CA, because they picked perhaps the only person in CA who could lose to Gray Davis.

[Coop]

Coop, the important thing here is the poll question about Riordan - he crushes Davis. The GOP voters out there could screw up a one-car funeral.

Oh, please! I hope you don't for one second believe Riordan would fare any better than Simon. It's simply not believable. Had Riordan won the primary, Riordan would have been blasted with $16 mil worth of attack ads. And he wouldn't have had the GOP base to start with.

Davis was (and may still be hopefully) ripe for the picking

As this and about 15 other polls have shown, there's no "maybe" about it. Simon can defeat Davis. Despite the best efforts of those here at FR (and not the disruptors) telling us all how it can't be done.