R2K, CA-04: Brown +6

[Sam Spade]

McClintock has run a bad, bad campaign in a year when you can't afford to do such.

Even given the R2K bias, he's probably down slightly with little time left.

[Sam Spade]

McClintock has run about one of the worst campaigns I've seen in quite a while.

[Sam Spade]

He has a history of running losing campaigns (another House race, two State controller races, a Lt. Governor's race, and a governor's one), which was one of my points that you dismissed

In the statewide races, he always ran better than the generic Republican.  The House race was not in that favorable of a seat and he ran well.

Strange that you give him a race that he should be favored in and he runs worse than usual.  Kinda like a team that plays down to its competition.

[Sam Spade]

McClintock has run about one of the worst campaigns I've seen in quite a while.

What are the sad and sordid details on this?

For example, it would help if he had run campaign advertising the last week of the campaign or so.

[Sam Spade]

Well he ran out of money!  What's a guy supposed to do?

You raise another "bad campaign" hallmark.  The best comparison I can think of lies in auto racing.