This is no way to run a campaign

Early in the week Phil Angelides' campaign sends a snarky fax to Leno:

With this Election Day just weeks away, and Mr. Angelides trailing rather substantially in the polls, his campaign has decided to make an issue of the unequal treatment. At the campaign’s behest, Representative Xavier Becerra, a Democrat from Los Angeles, wrote a letter of complaint to Kevin J. Martin, the president of the Federal Communications Commission.

The Angelides campaign wrote a letter to NBC affiliates appealing to them to not broadcast Mr. Leno’s show with the governor.

Mr. Angelides’s campaign manager, Amanda Crumley, accused Mr. Leno of giving Mr. Schwarzenegger a leg up among late-night television viewers in violation of F.C.C. rules. “As absentee ballots are currently hitting homes in California,” Ms. Crumley said in a prepared statement, “the governor is getting what amounts to millions in free airtime from the network.”

A spokesman for the commission, David Fiske, declined to comment, as did Mr. Schwarzenegger’s re-election campaign.

And then later in the week, the campaign unveils this bit of surreal political advertising. Yes, that is a "Dump Nixon" flyer on the bulletin board.

Phil's got serious street cred.