Despite evidence that the Field Poll today is once again skewed in favor of Democratic Party candidates, it is still not a vote of the people.   Elections are not won on paper, but in the real aftermath of an entire political campaign.

However, the race for Attorney General will not be a battle over a pollster's methodology but over Oakland Mayor Brown's bizarre political views, his history of paranoid rants about American society, his exceptionally erratic conduct of public affairs and his detachment from the fulltime job of providing family safety.

As we all learned in Political Science 1, public opinion polls are snapshots in time, and today's Field Poll is no different.  Oakland Mayor Brown has benefited from a snapshot that does not include the entire picture.

Thus the poll does not reflect full public awareness of:

The criminal war zone that Brown presides over as Mayor of Oakland – the single most dangerous city in California, and where just this past weekend street shootings of two more teenagers brought the total murders to 81 versus last year's 43.   Murders, burglaries, robberies, and car thefts have all increased during his term as mayor.  Mayor-elect Ron Dellums has said: “Oakland is in a panic about crime.”

Mayor Brown's five decades of emotional, irrational and eccentric opposition to the death penalty for the most hideous criminals in California.

His comparison of California to Nazi Germany for executing the “Freeway Killer,” a perverted sadist who tortured, mutilated and murdered 21 teenage boys.

His repeated comparisons of America to a fascist society along with accusations that the lawful application of capital punishment will make us “like Hitler's Germany.”

Brown's stated position – despite his lawyer's duty as an officer of the court – that : “There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.”

His attacks on anti-terrorist legislation as creating a “Gestapo-type” police force.

His claim that the war on drugs is a “scam.”

His belief that our correctional system spent more money because of a “crackpot psychology” and is comparable to Stalin's Soviet gulags.

His assertion that America is run by one percent of corporate oligarchies and they, in turn, are run by the CIA.

This is the beginning of a long campaign to expose the record, the views and the exceptional danger of elevating to chief law enforcement officer one whose entire life in politics has reflected repeated contempt for common sense views of public safety, not to mention public discourse.

Every Californian should shudder at Mayor Brown's promise that, for the rest of California, he will “lead the fight against crime as (he) has done as mayor of Oakland.”