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Do not discount the fact that about five days before the election, the Democrats will do a data dump on Arnold, with every accusation true and untrue, factually possible or not, whether even any degree of plausibility exists at all, into every media in California and any peripheral areas, in an effort to swamp Arnold's campaign.

Arnold shall have no opportunity to deliver his own message, as he will be trying to put out the fires. Does anybody recall the DUI splash on Dubya that was put out on the eve of the November 2000 election? That almost worked.

I think you are overestimating the value of dirt on Arnold. He is not running on a "family values" platform. The people that are currently polling for him are NOT the right wing of the Repub party. Some of us are there, but only due to our pragmatic realization that Tom is not going to close 20 points in the next two weeks when Arnold has ten times the money and *ALL* of the Republican establishment behind him.

Today, he picked up Issa and Simon's endorsements.
Yesterday it was Brulte.

It is starting to look like Tom *can't* spoil this race despite his best efforts. If Arnold wins, Tom is toast. If Arnold looses, Tom is bread crumbs.

He should have gotten out while the getting was good. At this point he will either be a successful spoiler, or a failed spoiler. Either way, he will not win.

I am as right-wing, Christian Conservative as you can get, but I recognized early that the Republican Party was not only going to support Arnold, they were calling all of the big contributors and telling them not to contribute to Tom.

Tom's money has been from three sources.

#1 - Indians who want to build more casinos.
#2 - Stop the car tax - Bustamante style cheating on the CFR laws.
#3 - People like you who have not had the good fortune of waking from the dream yet.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I know where you are. I was a Simon supporter and I went through it about 4 weeks ago.