The Constantine campaign today is attempting to use the latest SurveyUSA poll – and the recent Washington Poll — in the same way the hawkers of weight loss miracles use before and after shots as “evidence” of cause and effect.

With a rhetorical flavor more bitter than a whisky sour, Dow Constantine’s campaign has broken through the last barrier between deliberate misrepresentation of Susan Hutchison’s positions on issues and outright lies. An e-mail sent out shortly before …

The first TV ad in this year’s campaign from Dow Constantine may be one more indication of why the most recent SurveyUSA/King5 polls released Tuesday showed Hutchison increasing her lead to five points in Democrat-leaning King County.

The chair of King County Democrats, Susan Sheary, lobbed a flashbomb at Susan Hutchison’s campaign Tuesday when a complaint was filed with the State Public Disclosure Commission alleging an array of infractions of disclosure laws by the campaign to elect Hutchison as King County executive.

NARAL’s attempt to encourage single issue voting is risky in a year when the economy and emergency preparedness will likely overshadow all other voter concerns.

If King County Executive hopeful Dow Constantine is the one making a concession call the night of November 3rd, it will be the decisions made by his campaign during the past two weeks that determined his political fate.