As Recall Vote Nears, Davis Goes on the Offensive
By DEAN E. MURPHY
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 26 — Senator Dianne Feinstein was asked last month why she supported Gov. Gray Davis in his recall fight, when a decade ago Mr. Davis compared her to the jailed tax evader Leona Helmsley in a widely criticized campaign commercial.
"Lesson learned," Senator Feinstein said of Mr. Davis on the NBC News program "Meet the Press." Pressed further, she added: "I hope so. I believe so."
The unanswered question is whether Mr. Davis can take on Mr. Schwarzenegger without resorting to what many Californians regard as his natural political reflex — an unseemly knack for the underhanded — and thereby undoing the progress that Senator Feinstein and others insist he has made in winning back many voters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/national/nationalspecial3/28RECA.htmThis type of media right wing favoritism (the whole article in an underhanded attack on Davis as a dirty campaigner) is the reason we are going to have a hard time in 2004.
When was the last time any major media devoted two pages to attacking Arnold for his negative ads (which he promised he wouldn't run and which he has been running for over a week), or anything else?