Cool, I just got my first push poll, from the Tarrance Group, "A national Republican polling firm". The meat of the poll was a series of questions about Nick Leibham and Brian Bilbray, asking whether certain positions would make you more or less likely to vote for a candidate - including such unbiased questions as, "Nick Leibham has publicly stated that even as families struggle with higher gas bills, he would not work to reduce gas prices but invest in alternative energy" and "Nick Leibham includes on his campaign literature that he was prosecutor, but fails to mention that after one year he left to become a public defender." A few bad things were thrown in about Bilbray as well, just enough so that it wasn't blatant.

Of course, I am happy that high gas prices will continue to spur investment in alternative energy, which promises to bring lower energy prices in the long run. And I'm fairly ambivalent between prosecutors and defenders. Both can be eithre leeches sucking the life out of the justice system, or stalwart protectors of the public trust.