Monthly Archives: November 2003

For months the Democratic primary has been infested by a plague of cable TV debates and they've been a waste of time for nearly everybody, especially the candidates. Voters wait for the real debates on real local TV during the last weeks before the primaries. Those debates move numbers and should be treated with

GOP media consultant Mike Murphy is back from his hiatus as an adviser to some little-known actor turned CA Gov. Remember, this is a column, so send the blowback his way at mmurphy@nationaljournal.com Tan, Rested and Cranky The new governor of California is now sworn in and off to a wunderbar start, so I'm