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September 30, 2003

Huffington's future

Almost overnight, conventional wisdom around the campaign has focused on Arianna Huffington and how long she will remain in the race. Many think that Cruz Bustamante’s endorsement of her public financing initiative Sunday was part of a choreographed dance leading up to her quitting the race and endorsing Cruz. At the moment she is hovering in the very low single digits, so it’s hard to say that her exit would have much of a direct effect on the race. But Bustamante needs all the help he can get, especially a jolt of something to bring him out of a long campaign stupor. Arianna is nothing if not a jolt. She would certainly send a signal to the left that it's ok to back Cruz, which can't hurt at this point.

UPDATE: She will announce her decision on Larry King Live, and now there's speculation that she won't go for Cruz but will just be No on Recall. That would be amazing given her condemnation of Gray and his special interest politics. I guess we will just have to watch and see.

UPDATE: Bill Bradley at the LA Weekly reports that Arianna will not endorse a candidate on question 2. He adds that actor Warren Beatty has been advising both Huffington and Davis during the recall. Read the whole thing here.