[Crusader Rabbit]

I believe that you are mostly on target. It also bears notice that the total votes cast in the Republican primary exceed those cast in the 'Rat primary by a similar margin. These purposely fallaciously constructed polls are classic Clintonian propaganda. Their purpose is to discourage Republican voters from bothering to vote (it worked here in '96).

What I fear even more is that the "Clean Elections" board plans to create a scandal from nothing at the last moments of the campaign. They have already indicated that they mean to assert that the Salmon campaign's use of cash accounting, rather than cost accounting, is a violation of the law. They will do this despite the fact that the law does not specify and despite their never having issued policy on the subject. CEMA!

[hsmomx3]

I just heard on KFYI that this clean elections (?) people are after Matt again. I bet Janet is licking her chops over this.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Yeah, those so-called "clean election" laws are the pits.  Matt made the decision to use no public funds for his campaign, and he is getting all sorts of grief.  Janet, OTOH, loves the public teat and is getting a free ride.  In fact, Janet loved Bush's campaign raising here, because it meant more money in her coffers too.

The person who really puzzles me in all of this is Arpaio.  He has apparently come down in support of Janet.  Also, he seems to be wasting a lot of political capital by not keeping his yap shut (one reason I'm voting against his jails tax).

However, Matt's cutting back taxes theme sits far better with most people than Janet's "everything is on the table" theme.

Mahoney is a loose cannon, but he seems to be more damage to Janet (and himself) than Matt.