She had three things against her that made that race extremely difficult.
First, it’s California. It’s not easy for republicans there.
Second, the incumbent anger is against republicans there, because Arnold is a republican. So Brown is actually the “change candidate”, while the republican is held responsible for the bad things that have happened.
Third, she got played by her illegal alien nanny, and didn’t know how to respond.
Fourth she supports Tax-payer funded Abortion
Fifth she is just like her mentor, Myth Romney, she’ll say anything you want her to say if you’ll just vote for her.