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Wow, if accurate, this reflects exactly what I've been saying this week about it coming down to a horse race between Arnold and McClintock. I would never dispute that Bustamante would win in a one-on-one with Bustamante, because the Dems would be forced into his corner in order to oppose the conservative candidate, but with Arnold in there to pull a lot of liberal votes, McClintock could leapfrog over the two of them; at worst, Arnold wins due to the crossover votes of liberals.

It does neither candidate any good for either of them to drop out at this stage. Arnold needs McClintock to be the liberals' boogey man that steers their votes his way; and McClintock needs Arnold to split the liberal vote.

"It does neither candidate any good for either of them to drop out at this stage. Arnold needs McClintock to
be the liberals' boogey man that steers their votes his way; and McClintock needs Arnold to split the liberal
vote. "

Exactly right...they both need each other. Let's not
forget that historically demos are LAZY BUTT voters...many of them have to be rounded out and treated with free cigarettes to vote. The RAT party doesn't have enough time to put their usual machine into full court press. Many of the RATS won't know what corner to stand on for the free bus ride to the polls (and I mean POLLS ) -- so illegals will not be voting many times over as they often do for a few packs of cigs or beer or whatever it is the RAT party hands out these days. You out of state people forget that with NO backing from the RINO ops in the Ca. leadership (because their boy Riordan didn't get the nom.) Simon STILL almost won. There are any number of mad as hell hard core Repubs. out there...yes, they don't numerically outnumber dems...but dems will NOT have a huge turnout, many of them also being ticked off by grayout after finding out to what extent he lied about the budget. TRUE, many demos will vote for Busty, BUT Arnie being so far left, many of them might be attracted to HIM. If the hard core repubs. don't lose a lot of THEIR base to Arnie...McClintock has a shot at winning. Arnie NEEDS to stay in the race though....in order for Arnie to suck away some of Busty's support.