Will he slip hard enough, fast enough?

From AP:

Arnold Schwarzenegger entered the last full day of campaigning for the governorship as a poll showed his support slipping and more women surfaced to accuse the actor of groping them.

Schwarzenegger, who continued to blame the scandal on political dirty tricks, said he wouldn't say anything more about sexual harassment claims, now made by a total of 15 women, until after the election.

"I can get into all of the specifics and find out what is really going on," he told "Dateline NBC" Sunday night. "But right now I'm just really occupied with the campaign."

I can't believe he's brushing them off. At first it appeared like he was apologizing, saying he had learned to do better (lame as that is). Now he's attacking the credibility of these people, and acting like he didn't do much. Appalling.

I can only hope voters are equally appalled.

He's still ahead, but tightening:

A Knight Ridder poll released late Saturday found support for recalling Davis might be slipping, although 54 percent favored removing him while 41 percent were opposed. . . .

The pollsters also found that the percentage of people saying they would definitely vote to oust Davis dropped from 52 percent Wednesday, a day before the allegations against Schwarzenegger began surfacing, to 44 percent Saturday. The poll surveyed 284 people on Wednesday and 200 on Saturday; the margin of error for each day's sample was not released.

The overall poll indicated Schwarzenegger ahead of Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, the leading Democrat among the replacement candidates, with 36 percent support to 29 percent.

A poll conducted Sept. 29 and Oct. 1 by the Field Research Corp. had found Schwarzenegger with a 10-point lead over Bustamante -- 36 percent compared with 26 percent. That poll surveyed 465 likely voters and had a margin of sampling error of 5 percentage points.