Linda Cropp - DC's Gray Davis

It suddenly all makes sense! It turns out that the same people behind Linda Cropp's negative campaign blitz, DCO Media, are the same folks who so ably handled Gray Davis' campaigns in California! Amazingly, they actually mention it on their website!

Under the Clients section we get this gem:

Gray Davis’s stunning victory over two multi-millionaires to become governor of California

Lets see... boring, ineffectual, career bureaucrat, lousy campaign, candidate of the machine - sure enough Linda Cropp is DC's Gray Davis!