In today’s installment of our Tom-or-Arnold debate, Hugh Hewitt makes a couple of points on which I could use some help. Hugh charges:

a) That Tom McClintock is now accepting major moolah from Indian casinos, which doesn’t sound like Tom, and,

b) The some 400,000 absentee ballots have been cast, suggesting that absentee ballots are coming in heavier and sooner than anyone (anyone I knew, anyway) expected, and that McClintock and Arnold are already splitting the Republican vote, to the benefit of no one but Cruz.

Why do I need help with this? Because I’ve been away from home for three days now, which is about two days longer than it takes get out of touch. I’ve been trying to follow up on Hugh’s charges by surfing the web, but I’d also like to issue an appeal to Cornerites in California.

Can anyone direct me to a stories that explain the Indian casino business? Has McClintock made any statement about it? What in the Sam Hill is going on? And what about those absentee ballots? Is that huge number that Hugh cites somebody’s estimate? Or an actual count by the secretary of state?

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