While it now appears likely that the only pro-food candidate may drop out of the race even though he’s in a dead heat with Arnold Braunschweiger, those of us who oppose food must still band together in the meantime. Toward this noble end, Brendan Smart, the boi from Troy, has created a logo. Get a copy while they last.

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Prestopundit notes that when Annoyingarianna withdrew from the race, her level of support was within the margin of error. This means that statistically, nobody was voting for Arianna. Now that she’s out of the race, it’s good to know that nobody will be voting for Cruz Bustamante, instead.

UPDATE: If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Dave Barry’s take on Annoyingarianna’s withdrawal frmo the race. Hat tip: Mike (comments).

David Kopel peddles the Kool-Aid from abroad, pointing out at this late date (hat tip: Daniel Weintraub) the same weaknesses of Arnold’s gun control platform that I raised two weeks ago and Luis Tolley, California’s top gun-grabber, raised earlier still. before. All four stem from Arnold’s August 27 interview with Sean Hannity (audio link). To recap:

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Well, not quite. But close.

The latest Gallup Poll indicates a 40-25-18 split between Schwarzenegger, Bustamante and the Bustamante Enabler. This suggests that barring any last-minute bombshells, the Governator will probably do fine on October 7, despite the best efforts of the Tomikazes. This begs the question of of who, exactly, will be affected by the increasingly irrelevant McKool-Aid campaign. Up until now, the conventional wisdom was that the Tombots had the potential to ruin things for the Republican Party in California by handing the election to one of the worst, and least popular Democrats in the state. If the latest poll is any indication, though, this may be the last gasp of the paleoconservative movement in the state, and the first indication that the California GOP has finally re-invented itself. Only time will tell.

Daniel Weintraub, writing in two posts cleared by SacBee censors, argued yesterday that there was no clear winner in yesterday’s debate, and noted today that pundits who think there was a winner are all over the map as to who that winner might be. Some of Weintraub’s examples were surprising, man-bites dog analyses, such as Republicans impressed by Bustamecha, Democrats impressed by Schwarzenegger, and Schwarzenegger fans who thought he was disappointing.

I suspect, though, that most of the people who thought last night’s debate had a “winner” will nominate whoever they themselves now support in the race, which in most cases is whoever they supported before the debate, as well. Case in point: the Daily Monopoly, which appears to cherish its party’s monopoly power in Sacramento as much as its own near-monopoly status in L.A., managed to crown Gray Davis as the winner. Huh?

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Aficionados will be happy to know that Kool-Aid is now available in two flavors.

UPDATE: Dave Kopel has two articles on a third popular flavor of Kool-Aid: poorly planned Second Amendment challenges. Double-hat-tip: Randy Barnett. Spoons has more.

K is for Kool-Aid, which the McClintock gang had better lay off of soon if they don’t want Krazy Kalifornia to change its name to “Aztl

Daniel Weintraub, in a story that has been cleared by SacBee censors, notes the silliness of a Chronicle story that makes a bunch of paid Arnold-hecklers – rather than Arnold’s appearance itself – the lead story. I’d also add to the list, their much too benign sounding reference to Susan “Medea” Benjamin, to whom they refer merely as “a San Francisco-based Green Party activist who led the protest.” Actually, “Medea,” who borrows her moniker from a mythical character who murdered her own children, is the founder of Global Exchange, a far left, quasi-communist group that admires Fidel Castro’s dictatorship and generally makes the Greens look moderate by comparison. Stefan Sharkansky has much more on “Medea” and her organization’s lunacy.

Put simply, the fact that “Medea” and the gang don’t like Ahnold is scarcely worth covering as “news.” It would have been much more newsworthy if, for some odd reason, these career protesters had seen fit not to protest against him.