Davis Going Negative
As soon as Arnold entered the race in August, I predicted that Gray Davis would run a relatively positive campaign:
He’s going to appear at press conferences looking all grave and governor-like, talking about arcane issues and legislation that would bore you to tears. He’s going to run positive commercials extolling his “experience on the issues.”Any negative campaigning he does will not be against a single opponent, but against the “recall circus.”
So far Davis has stuck to that script. However, he’s now worried enough about Arnold that he’s reverting to form and going negative:
Mr. Davis’s challenge on Friday to debate Mr. Schwarzenegger, and a new television commercial raising doubts about the actor-turned-politician’s competence to run the state, are telltale marks of the new aggressiveness.“Politicians are either on offense or defense,” one Davis adviser said, “and we have moved to offense.”
— PoliPundit