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That Gallup poll showing the recall at 63 percent was very reasonable in estimating voter turnout.

Now that colleges are implementing the Supreme Court’s ludicrous “critical mass” racial quotas, Peter Wood looks at the even more ridiculous “diversity essays” students are being asked to write.

Everyone, including me, hates Arianna Huffington with a fiery passion. But she’s got a new ad that’s probably one of the riskiest campaign ads ever. Click here to watch it.

Immediately after the recall debate, I wrote:
Most political analysts are proclaiming that “there was no winner” in last night’s debate. They’re missing the point, just like they did in the first Bush vs. Gore debate in 2000.
Ordinary viewers don’t watch debates like journalists do. They’re voting for governor, not judging a debate. What voters are [...]

California Democrats are in full panic mode:
Democrats plan to attack Schwarzenegger with a flurry of mailers, phone calls and TV ads calling into question everything from his voting record to his association with former Gov. Pete Wilson. The move comes after several weekend tracking polls showed the actor-turned-politician taking a commanding lead over his chief [...]

John Fund has a great piece on the Voter Integrity Project.

As readers know, I consider the TV debate to have been the deciding moment in the recall election. However, Bill Whalen points out another moment that could be just as decisive:
ELECTIONS, like warfare, come down to turning points. And should Governor Gray Davis go down in flames a week from tomorrow, remember last Friday as [...]

Two pieces on the LA Times web site accuse that new Gallup poll, showing the recall at 63 percent, of:
1. Using a high turnout model: “The poll of 787 registered voters used a model for probable voters that assumes a relatively high 50 percent turnout among the state’s voting age population.”
2. Using a low turnout [...]

Howard Dean is finally taking on Weasel Clark:
Presidential hopeful Howard Dean yesterday attacked retired Gen. Wesley Clark as a puppet of “establishment politicians” while repeatedly and explicitly comparing his own policies to those of former President Bill Clinton.
“I think what you see in the Wes Clark candidacy is a somewhat of a desperation by inside-the-Beltway [...]

Adam Nagourney has a must-read look at the Bush campaign and how it’s gearing up for 2004. Key excerpts:
President Bush’s political advisers have set in motion an aggressive re-election machine, building a national network of get-out-the-vote workers and amassing a pile of cash for a blanket advertising campaign expected to begin around the time Democrats [...]

A new CNN/Gallup poll shows the recall at 63 percent and Arnold leading Bustamante 40-25.

Former New York Police Chief Bernard Kerik:
In my four months in Iraq, spent living with, working with, and learning from Iraqi police, I’ve seen things that would sicken the worst of minds. In our hunt for the Fedayeen Saddam, Saddam Hussein’s trained assassins, I watched video after video of interrogations of Iraqis whose lives ended [...]

Jeff Greenfield says the California recall polls are junk and that no one is sure of what will happen on October 7.
I agree that the recall polls are junk. I also think that presidential job approval ratings at this stage of the campaign are worthless.

“I never say the same thing every day. I grow every day.”
— Weasel Clark explaining his daily flip-flopping.

Weasel Clark says Republicans are unpatriotic:
They are the party that when I was commanding in Kosovo, they were the party led by Tom Delay against our airman who were in the skies over Yugoslavia taking fire from Serb anti-aircraft and this party voted against them. They claimed they weren’t. They claimed they were voting against [...]