Ah, its becoming more clear. Pete Wilson, the former California governor who introduced the car tax bill -- which had the tax hike provision which came into effect recently which doomed Davis' campaign even though he had no control over it -- anyway, Pete Wilson was chairman of Schwarzenegger's campaign. Nobody would have been as familiar with the car tax as Wilson -- he was responsible for it. So, naturally, they made it into a major campaign issue at the expense of Davis. I've heard Republicans say many times that "Davis raised the car tax and we won't put up with that." Actually, the car tax was raised by a law signed by Wilson. The Schwarzenegger/Wilson team managed to win in part on a platform of repealing that awful car tax. Neat. Watching CNN, I noticed that they mentioned (once or twice) that the car tax law was created by Wilson. But then they repeatedly interviewed people who said, "Davis created this car tax," and no one from CNN offered any correction. Is the liberal media so spineless that they cannot confront interview subjects with hard facts? As James pointed out to me in conversation, this is not a matter of opinion. It is a matter of public record. CNN, fully aware of the facts, nonetheless allows their interview subjects to use CNN as a forum for the spread of misinformation.