"Sterngold can't complete his story without a quote from the ubiquitous Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, the Norman Ornstein of the West Coast. Jeffe is a liberal political scientist at the University of Southern California who seems to spend much of her day returning phone calls to the dominant media. She is always ready to tell the reporters what they want to hear. "Simon has gotten no traction from his upset in the primary," she said. "Simon's really been under the radar screen since the primary, and he hasn't defined himself."" Is Jeffe the 'protege' of that other USC professor that during the Clinton years acted as a 'mouthpiece for the left', Susan Estrich?