Yesterday afternoon's debate between Phil Angelides and Steve Westly on Univision's Voz y Voto (scheduled to air Saturday) "marked a sharp negative turn in the race", according to the Los Angeles Times. The rest of the media agrees– for example, the opening sentence of the San Francisco Chronicle's story on the debate declares: "The once-polite campaign for governor turned harsh Wednesday". But there are two problems with this turning-point-in-the-campaign trope that's echoing throughout
