Deinonychus antirrhopus

Now This is Funny

I had to chuckle at this part of this article.

Some blame the court case that interrupted the campaign last week at a critical point. Others point out the state's higher car tax bills are just now hitting the mailboxes and igniting new voter anger. There are also some who say the performance of Republican front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger in the big debate last week has somehow turned the tide.--emphasis added

I'm sure many rejoiced at the initial decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, but it will be quite amusing if in the final analysis it turns out to be the final nail in Davis' political coffin.

I think this part is absolutely correct,

There is also a new, aggressive push by Davis to have a debate with Schwarzenegger – a sign, Jeffe said, that Davis may be getting nervous himself, perhaps because his internal polling is showing the same trends as the CNN/Gallup poll.

Davis wants to get his lying face on television in a bad way, and to make Arnold look bad. So a debate is a good way to do it. Of course, Arnold has very little to gain from debating Gov. Lowbeam and plenty to lose.

Then there is a sense that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, the other leading Democrat in the race, has also fallen, largely because of criticism about him taking huge sums of money from Indian gaming interests.

Media bias here? These large sums of money have been found to be illegal. I'm fairly confident that if it were a Republican who had taken illegal campaign contributions we'd be hearing much, much more about it. Instead here we get this almost casual off-hand remark.