Arianna Outraces Arnold in Flash Movie

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LOS ANGELES The result of one California recall contest is in: Arianna Huffington has defeated Arnold Schwarzenegger in the race to create the first campaign movie ad.

The cheeky three-minute, South Park-style animation, which broke yesterday on votearianna.com, features a drag race between Schwarzenegger, driving a yellow Hummer, and Huffington in a gas-electric hybrid car. Schwarzenegger zooms ahead, mowing down trees and families along the way, but he has to keep stopping for gas, at one point supplied by President Bush himself.

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