The big story concerning Herr Governator is that according to a new poll, his ballot initiatives are actually winning right now. Is it due to all those super-expensive Hollywood style campaign stops he's been doing? The forcing of poor tired fire-fighting firefighters to be dragged out for photo-ops? Or is it the overwhelming popularity of his stand against freshness in school kid's lunches? Or maybe it's due to wonky polling? We don’t know. We do know that the recent poll numbers were so unusual that they haven’t been officially announced. Instead, they've merely been leaked to the internet. All we can say is that considering how lousy our "John Kerry Victory Party" was, we learned a long time ago not to trust polling numbers leaked onto the internet.

In other news, the Treasurer of California, Phil Angelides (who SFist can’t help but think looks like Phil Rizutto) gave a speech on his recent findings concerning California’s economic standing. His verdict? Keep things going the way things are going and soon the Governor will have to walk up and down Valencia Street selling his daughter's etch-a-sketch drawings to get by. According to Phil, our state is now $26 billion dollars in debt and soon to be getting a nasty phone call from Guido at Collection Debt Service Are Us (or, since everything's being outsourced, Rajneesh in New Delhi from Collection Debt Service Are Us). This may be a coincidence, but Phil is running against Schwarzenegger for Governor in 2006. We're sure this has nothing to do with his doomy and gloomy speech.