"Every time that reporters and other people are turning over rocks, there are a lot of cockroaches running -- and they're all running for the center of the Capitol," Walsh said. "And I see Bill Simon holding a big can of Raid."
Now, as all good liberals know, conservative politicians never win because of people agreeing with them. They only win because their opponents mess up, or they pull the wool over the people's eyes, or they get corporate interests behind them to outspend their opponents, etc., ad nauseum.
So this article is slanting the story as if Bill Simon didn't have a chance in the world until the Oracle thing came out. Notice the reference to Davis leading the polls, which is untrue except for one biased poll. And the one on Simon "seizing the offensive for the first time", when he's been on the offensive since he first started taking Riordan apart.
In short, this guy is setting up for a Simon win. He's probably already written his post-election editorial, explaining that people don't really agree with Simon, but "they voted against Davis because of the Oracle thing, etc. etc." That way he can continue to keep his own head in the sand and deny that half the people in California are not liberal idiots.