[capitan_refugio]

If you would like a sneak look at Gray Davis's mean-spirited attack dog strategy, take a peak at today Drudge Report. It's going to be ugly folks. Davis is going to make those killer Canary Island fighting dogs in San Francisco (Bane and Hera) look like adorable puppies.

[quimby]

Good news bump.

[Dog Gone]

Public Opinion Strategies Inc. (POS),

Uh, they need a new acronym, especially if they're in the polling business.

[Red Jones]

this is very good news; also please note that last week I read an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that said Simon has absolutely zero chance of winning the general election. Friends it looks like those fashionable experts who insist that conservative republicans can't win are just plain stupid themselves.

[Senator_Blutarski]

This is news you won't get at ABCCBSNBCNPR. They'll be greasing up the Davis Smear Machine for a full scale attack on Simon. We can expect Democrat politics at its low down worse very soon in Califonia.

[scottiewottie]

"I kept the lights on. And this sounds a little presumptuous, but I think I should at least get a round of applause. I don't get squat."

Flush twice, Gray-out's office is asking for squat. It's our civic duty!

[Ol' Sparky]

Yeah, there is no way Simon can win....What excuse do the spineless Republicans like those that run the Bush administration have now for supporting Riordan?

[AmericaUnited]

Davis sounds just like McInsane on the campaign trail. Do we have the old pictures of McInsane's head and neck veins expoding ? Time to resurrect them.

[madison46]

bump so I can forward !! Great news!

[Hebrews 11:6]

"P.O.S." is hardly a household name in California polling, and therefore their results are difficult to interpret. The Field Poll has long been the most reliable here, I think.

Of course, whatever the current polling numbers suggest, the fact is that it's seven-and-one-half months until the election, and Grayout Davis is sitting on something like $50 million--and if that runs short, there are any number of special interests (unions, Hollywood, etc.) who would be thrilled to give him as much more as he thinks he needs.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Do you understand that? I kept the lights on.

Calm Down Mr Governor. Here's your meds. Be a good boy and we'll loosen your straight jacket.

[Prodigal Son]

This is just hillarious! The lefties were worried about Riordan. Even still, they think Simon does not have a chance in hell because he is conservative. I am so looking forward to the election. When Simon is elected you will hear the giant sucking sound of all those liberal a$$holes doing the great pucker.

[MHT]

Great news--

Now if we can just get the same seven-point news for Talent over Carnahan (MO), Alexander in TN, Bush over Reno (FL) to name a few...

[My2Cents]

Internal polls aren't terribly accurate (and this sounds like an internal Simon poll), but I do think they show a trend, and it appears there is a trend toward Simon.

I'm not surprised that Davis trails everywhere but in the SF Bay Area. The Bay Area (where I was born and raised) would vote for Joseph Stalin if he were pro-gay and pro-abortion.

[choirboy]

SAN FRANCISCO SIMON 38% DAVIS 54%

Hmmmm . . . only 54% for Davis in SF. If this is an accurate poll (likely voters, etc.) that's really bad news for Davis. This early in the campaign his stronghold should be much higher. In the general election in 1998 Davis had 80% against Lungren in SF.

I hope it's a good poll.

[Dialup Llama]

It's quite simple. Keep calling him Grey Out Davis. The one who caused the power crisis and then got Calif stuck with expensive long term electricity contracts. (A commodities trader Davis is not.)

[Vladiator]

According to Public Opinion Strategies Inc. (POS), a nationally recognized political polling firm retained by the Simon camp, Simon leads with 48 percent to Davis' 41 percent.

And according to a polling firm retained by Paul Rubens, Pee Wee Herman is the most popular children's character in the enitre world.

[grumpster-dumpster]

For Immediate Release:

These higher numbers by Simon are an indication of what Californians can expect under a Simon regeme. Californians deserve much better! Lower expectations. Lower Standards. Lower electricity availability.

The Simon campaign is just another indication that the mean-spirited National Republican Comittee wants to deprive Californias of the lower standards they have come to expect!

Californians deserve the lowest! They deserve me!
VOTE LOW! VOTE DAVIS!
- Another Comittee to Re-elect Gray Davis

[Howie66]

I suppose that a 7 point lead in the polls is pretty good....for California. Let's hope and pray that Mr. Simon can take that lead and build on it.

From what I just saw on Fox News, it would appear that Grayout Davis is going to do anything and everything in his power to (unwittingly) help Simon.

[Caipirabob]

Simon Has Seven Point Lead Over Davis

OK, I'm going to be a party pooper here folks. The bad news is this: I'm not only hopeful that Simon will win, I'm certain of it. The big problem is that Simon will feel some sort of obligation to make Californistan a better place and try to clean up the mess Davis has made of the state. Frankly, it may be easier to cede Californistan to Mexico.

Maybe we could swap it for Cancun?

OK, I'm joking mostly about the trade, but Davis has some 6 months of campaigning in which he'll do his best to hide and obscure problems so they don't become an issue during the election. He'll devote by far, more resources to deception than actual productive action (his MOO) leaving Californistan so far in the dumps that it may be impossible to dig it out in a single term.

Guess who the media will blame?

If we give Davis a gun maybe he'll shoot himself BUMP!