The L.A. Times and CNN are talking about holding a California gubernatorial debate on September 30. The idea is that they would invite any candidate who was at 10% in either the L.A. Times poll or the Field poll, plus Gray Davis. Those two polls are running far enough apart that it's likely Tom McClintock would qualify by at least one. That would probably mean the debate would be Davis, Bustamante, Schwarzenegger and McClintock. So you'd have…
- Two Democrats who seem to detest one another
- Two Republicans with wildly-different viewpoints
- Two guys who want the recall, one who doesn't and one who says he doesn't
- Three pro-choicers
- One guy who admits to having used marijuana and hashish, and to participating in public group sex…but is not Larry Flynt
- Three people with experience in government
- …and four completely different views of how much fiscal difficulty California is in.
That should be interesting. But what do you want to bet some enterprising station puts together an alternative debate with Gary Coleman, Larry Flynt, Gallagher, that porn actress and a few others? And that Arianna Huffington, Peter Ueberroth and Peter Camejo get shut out of both?