[BibChr]

That is starting to worry me. Even outlets of which you'd expect better, like Fox and Weintraub, are giving this far more ominous import than it can possibly be worth.

If this dirty trick actually works... we'll revisit the issue of leaving the state. It will have become suicidally stupid. If after all these years, they haven't yet caught on that (1) desperate Demo's do and say desperate things (as Eric Hogue says), (2) they ALWAYS release dirt JUST BEFORE an election, and (3) it VIRTUALLY ALWAYS turns out to be flatly untrue or grossly misrepresented... AFTER the election -- if they haven't gotten that, they never will, and the state's hopeless.

I think I'd run campaigns differently, though, even than A's has. The week before the last week, I'd be all over the media doing a scandal-watch, putting out trial-balloons, basically doing my best to defuse it all before it hit.

And my mantra would be, "Decide your vote BEFORE the last week, believe nothing DURING the last week."

Dan

[Victoria Delsoul]

If this dirty trick actually works... we'll revisit the issue of leaving the state. It will have become suicidally stupid. If after all these years, they haven't yet caught on that (1) desperate Demo's do and say desperate things (as Eric Hogue says), (2) they ALWAYS release dirt JUST BEFORE an election, and (3) it VIRTUALLY ALWAYS turns out to be flatly untrue or grossly misrepresented... AFTER the election -- if they haven't gotten that, they never will, and the state's hopeless.

What worries me is that this problem isn't limited to just CA, but it's a nationwide problem. It's really frightening.