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OK, I grant you that the Democrats have benefitted from the headlines. But this isn't the only story out there. And the fact is, Simon WASN'T in the lawsuit. If people want to lie, or choose to not listen to the truth, they would never have voted for Simon in the first place.

The election is going to be a referendum on Gray Davis. If people think that Davis is not corrupt or a failed leader, he'll win on November 5th. If they think that he is corrupt and a failed leader, he will lose on November 5th.

Simon needs to do what he did in the primary ... bide his time, get close to the election, then sell himself as the alternative to the failed leadership of Gray Davis.

Simon is winning in 9 or 11 polls. I'm sure we'll hear of another poll soon. Let's not give up before the race has even begun!

Exactly.

This has hurt, but it is not fatal. IM (not so) HO, the real damage is not with the Democrat core vote (they're beyond reach, anyway), or with the vast undecided middle, but rather with the "Main Street" Republicans. If I'm right about this, the truth will eventually come out, and this will be a minor annoyance come November.

The most interesting part, for me, is seeing the LA Times continue with such a remarkably partisan set of "news" articles. Further, Steve Lopez has also taken the gloves off, and is swinging with some big roundhouse punches -- will this boomerang? I think it will with a key fraction of voters.

"Let's not give up before the race has even begun!"

Hear, hear. Amazing fatalism displayed on this one. If Simon is still being pounded on this and is also being killed in the polls come October, then I'll worry. Meanwhile, I'm going to send Simon some campaign cash....