But to your point about laughing off Simon being ahead by 8 points in the Democrat's poll - it just says to me that you are hopelessly biased against Simon (or for the Parsky attack on the Simon campaign) or else uninformed about California politics.
Democrats hold a 46% to 36% registration advantage. Simon has beaten that 10% advantage and bested Davis by 8% in this poll. You are going to arm-chair quarterback, nitpick and gripe against Simon and his ability to "get off the dime" when he has made up 18%?
Hmmm... last I recall that's about the margin that RINOs LOST BY in candidates like Tom Campbell, John Seymour and others. Leave Simon alone and shoot Parsky. Its time for him to retire in San Diego and play Risk! on the computer all day since power and control seems all he is interested in. It certainly isn't ideology, freedom, principle or values.