Posted on 03/17/2010 10:11:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Republican Meg Whitman's months-long advertising campaign is buying the billionaire, first-time candidate a precious political commodity: name recognition - and a virtual tie with Democrat Jerry Brown, a veteran of 40 years in politics, according to a Field Poll released today on California's gubernatorial race.
Whitman, the former eBay CEO who has poured $39 million into her campaign, also continued to thrash her rival in the GOP primary, state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. Among likely Republican primary voters, 63 percent preferred Whitman to 14 percent for Poizner.
Against Brown, the state attorney general and former governor, Whitman led 46 to 43 percent. The margin of error in the survey of 748 likely general election voters, taken March 9-15, was 3.7 percentage points.
The early snapshot of the race not only is bad news for Poizner but analysts said it could be ominous for Brown, who announced his candidacy March 2.
While both campaigns say Whitman's support is soft because voters aren't yet paying attention to the June 8 primary, analysts say Poizner and Brown may soon have to respond more aggressively to Whitman's carpet-bombing of airwaves that began last fall.
Brown supporters had hoped that the wealthy Republican candidates would weaken each other during the GOP primary through endless counterattacks. That hasn't happened.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Are you in CA?
Your moniker is canuck, your homepage is flying a Canadian flag.
Do you have any idea on how the Sacramento politics game is played?
They’re going to have her for a snack, not even an entree. She’s that naive and inexperienced with CA politics.
She’s not even close to being the type of governor CA needs right now. She’s timid, won’t debate, keeps herself at arms distance from many radio and tv shows.
I don’t trust her and I’m one of many who’s going to be paying the price if this spineless RINO gets elected.
Are you going to be paying the price alongside those of us in CA?
What bothers me about people like Whitman and MeCain, is that they only tell you part of the story. During an election year John MeCain sounds like a solid guy. Then you’re stuck with the ass for the next five years, until they go into election mode again.
It seems I may have been wrong with regard to Whitman’s voting record. As the following linked article mentions, it was reported she had not vote before. She objected and mentions that she certainly did vote in 1984 and 1988. She vote for Reagan and Bush respectively.
What is curious about that claim, is that it evidently wasn’t important enough for her to vote against Carter in 1980. And that leads one to wonder if she voted for Carter or didn’t vote that year.
Wasn’t that an important year to vote? Weren’t all the years since 1988 important election years?
I also note that her response was that she did vote in 84 and 88, but didn’t say something like, ‘I always vote’ or ‘I voted in every presidential election’.
What would your response be. Since being of age, I have voted in every election held, with the exception of about three local elections in my lifetime.
I consider it my civic duty. It seems to me that Meg doesn’t share that view.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=49948
I don’t mind if he wants to comment. Look, he’s not raising any questions that some Californians won’t raise as they consider her. I’d rather shoot her down against his points. Nailing this one to the wall is important, and objection provides a basis to do that.
Poizner won't spend his money.
She will be another who vetoes all the crazy nutter bills cooked up by that flaky SF lefties that run both houses .
I can live with that vs Moonbeam ramming thru massive tax increases for his SEIU and other unions goon buddies.
California has an economy as large as your entire country of Kanada.
What's that say about Kanada?
Would you like to hear why she has contributed to Barbara Boxer's senate campaigns in previous elections?
Poizner appears to be the more conservative of the two.
Meg Whitman appears to be the most liberal.
Sadly , Whitman will be like Arnie , vetoing the
crazy radical nutter bills coming out from Wack jobs in Sacramento .
Also the SEIU , Sierra Club Nutters , Movon.org ,and ACCORN plan to spend 40 million
on Moonbeam .
I can take a inexperienced rhino or a Moonbeam who help set up this UNION HELL back during his first damaging 2 terms.
She’ll throw conservatism in CA back to the stone age if she fails. And I believe she will fail. The albatross will be hung around the neck of any conservative for years to come. All you have to do is look at what they’re doing with Ahnold.
Everytime a failure comes out of the governor’s office, it’s preceded with “Republican governor...”.
It should be obvious.
Conservatives in CA should be fighting the CAGOP and their duplicity in regards to this and previous elections. They’re selling us out just like the Gang of 3 did last year in Sacramento.
Steve has not only donated to Al Gore recount but he
donated and supported bills to kill Prop 13 and Kill the 2/3 majority vote in the State House which has stopped all the crazy leftist bills and Union Goon bills from being rammed thru .read and weep.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2009/08/the_two_faces_of_californias_s.php
Neither one is great but the anti Prop 13 and anti/3 majority votes are left wing ideas.
Do you have 50 million to fight off the SEIU, Movon.org, Accorn ?????
Stop promoting the grand strategy of NOT VOTING....
That's how we got Obama !
Why would McClintock endorse him? I’m smelling a big rat here and it smells like sH!*!
Please show me where I said anything of the kind.
Since you can’t, stop putting words into my mouth and read my posts before you open your mouth.
Poizner actually appears to be to the right of the Romney gal.
Poizner is definitely campaigning far to the right of Meg Whitman.
Are you from California ???
if you were from here then you would know that anyone trying to kill off Prop 13 and 2/3 majority is a Liberal Democrat.
The unions have been pushing these ideas for years
Thanks for the update...
“To become a billionaire is tough, you have to get some of the issues right. There’s not a lot of billionaires around.”
George Soros is a billionaire.
Then who do we vote for if the GOP candidates are
unacceptable ????
It takes big bucks to take on the unions and the left wingers out here !
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