[ElkGroveDan]

Mr. Davis who, despite a rash of top-shelf – high-profile – bungles, is leading his Republican opponent by a huge margin in a top poll.

That is the main point of the article and it is based on a HUGE fallacy. the Field poll that they refer to is a flawed poll and it always has been. They DO NOT call likely voters. They don't even call REGISTERED voters. They call anyone who picks up the phone, and then rely on them to decide themsleves if they are a likely voter.

I could go on and on about all the Field poll gaffs over the years. They had Kathleen Brown beating Wilson two months out when all the other polls in the state showed her getting clobbered (which is what happened).

THE FIELD POLL IS NOT A RELIABLE POLITICAL POLL!

Two different political polls this week show Simon ahead -- one by 4 and one by 8 points.

[CalConservative]

That makes me feel better. I'd always thought of the Christian Science Monitor as a relatively conservative paper. Maybe I'm just so paranoid about the prospects of four more years of Gray-out Davis that this stuff really gets to me!

[Coop]

Could you please provide some details on the 4-pt poll? I haven't seen that one.