[pogo101]

All electability-predicting polls are hypothetical, including the polls showing Schwarzenegger in the lead.

Nice try, but we both know that, even if one credited your response somehow, the poll result you're touting here is one "layer" MORE hypothetical: It presumes that Arnold is not an option. (I am assuming that it also presumes, effectively, that any absentee votes already cast for Arnold, hundreds of thousands of them by now, somehow could be re-directed to Tom, which isn't true.)

Arnold NOT being an option is a much more unlikely hypothetical, to put it mildly, than the general, unavoidable hypothetical nature inherent in any poll.

[JCEccles]

And Dewey beat Truman.

Hypothetically.

[Roscoe]

It presumes that Arnold is not an option.

His hatred of "right wing crazies" will keep Arnold in the race.

[RichInOC]

The more I read McClintock supporters trying to explain how their guy can win, the more it reminds me of the "Far Side" cartoon with two scientists drawing up a huge equation that fills a blackboard, except for this one spot where they've written "...and then a miracle occurs..."